Jiang Zhi Hong Hong PhD

Jiang Zhi Hong obtained Bachelor's and Master's degrees from China Pharmaceutical University in 1987 and 1990, respectively. He earned his PhD degree from Nagasaki University, Japan in 1998. After postdoctoral training in the Department of Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, USA from 1999-2001, he joined the School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University in 2001 as an assistant professor, and was promoted to be an associate professor in 2005 and full professor in 2008. He was the Associate Director of the Teaching Division and Director of the Master's Program of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Chinese Medicine. In July 2011, he moved to Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST), and took the positions of Director of Macau Institute for Applied Research in Medicine and Health, and Deputy Director of State Key Laboratory for Quality Research in Chinese Medicines (MUST). In March 2016, he was appointed as Vice President of Macau University of Science and Technology.

Professor Jiang is an internationally renowned scientist in natural products chemistry. His research interests include natural product chemistry, metabolomics, quality control of Chinese medicinal herbs, and bioorganic chemistry. To advance the modernization of Traditional Chinese medicines (TCM) research and development, Professor Jiang has devoted deeply to the characterization of the active ingredients of TCM, and elucidation of their action mechanism by using modern technologies of chromatography, spectroscopy, chemical biology, and metabolomics, and has obtained outstanding achievements. Professor Jiang has published more than 240 papers in international SCI journals, which were cited 7046 times, with an H-index of 51 (Google Scholar, 2018). Professor Jiang was awarded the Young Distinguished Scholars by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Overseas) in 2007 and was appointed as Chair Professor of the Changjiang Scholars Programme by the Ministry of Education of China in 2014. His research was financially supported by the Macau Science and Technology Development Fund (FDCT), the Hong Kong Research Grants Council, the Department of Health of HKSAR, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of the U.S.A. He also serves in several important academic positions, including a member of the International Advisory Board of ChemMedChem and an Editorial Board Member of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). In addition, Professor Jiang also serves in multiple social service positions, including the Vice President of the Speciality Committee on Immunology of TCM and the Speciality Committee of TCM Pharmaceutical Chemistry of the World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (WFCMS), the Vice Councilor of the Cross-Strait Scientific Collaboration Center for Chinese Medicine, and the member of the Macao Science and Technology Council.