Editorial Board

Editor-in-Chief

Jianli Gao  E-Mail | Website

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 310053 Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

Interests: organ degeneration; regeneration and regulation of traditional Chinese medicine; immunotherapy of breast cancer; anticancer activities of natural products

Marcello Iriti E-Mail | Website

Plant Biology and Pathology, Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Food Sciences, Milan State University, 20122 Milan, Italy

Interests: medicinal plants; plant secondary metabolites; bioactive phytochemicals; botanicals; plant extracts; essential oils; marine drugs; nutraceuticals; phytotherapeutics; herbal remedies; functional foods; mediterranean diet; traditional diets; ethnopharmacology; ethnoveterinary; ethnonutrition; antimicrobials; antimicrobial resistance; cancer chemoprevention; anticancer agents; antineoplastic resistance; cardioprotection; neuroprotection; antidiabetic agents; anti-obesity agents; immunomodulatory agents; antiaging agents; antioxidant activity; bioavailability; pharmacokinetics; evidence-based phytotherapy; clinical trials

Editorial Board Members

Tong-Chuan He E-mail | Website

Molecular Oncology Laboratory, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, The University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago, IL 60637, USA

Interests: bone and skeletal biology; bone and soft tissue tumors; cancer drug resistance; cancer metastasis; gene/cell-based therapy; mesenchymal stem cells; noncoding RNAs; regenerative medicine; BMP signaling; WNT signaling

Ching-Liang Hsieh E-mail | Website

Department of Chinese Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, 404327 Taichung City, Taiwan, China

Interests: Chinese Medicine treating stroke and epilepsy from basic to clinical; acupuncture physiology

Qingwen Zhang E-mail | Website

State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine, Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences, University of Macau, 999078 Macau, China

Interests: natural products chemistry; natural products; traditional medicine; Chinese Medicine; phytochemistry; phytochemical analysis; quality control; health products

Xinhua Shu E-mail | Website

Department of Biological & Biomedical Sciences, School of Health & Life Sciences, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU), Glasgow G4 0BA, UK

Interests: neurodegenerative disorders; age related macular degeneration; Alzheimer’s disease; oxidative stress; inflammation; cholesterol homeostasis; traditional Chinese medicine; natural products

Peter Achunike Akah E-mail | Website

Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Nigeria, 410105 Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria

Interests: screening, authentication, verification and analysis of herbal drugs and natural medicines

Yi-Wen Lin E-mail | Website

College of Chinese Medicine, Graduate Institute of Acupuncture Science, China Medical University, 40402 Taichung, Taiwan, China

Interests: acupuncture; pain; depression; TRPV1; signaling pathway; brain sciences

Johannes van Staden E-mail | Website

Research Centre for Plant Growth and Development, School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg Campus, 3209 Scottsville, South Africa

Interests: medicinal plants; plant biology; plant biotechnology; plant physiology; plant molecular biology; plant tissue culture; plant development; molecular plant physiology; plant biochemistry

Elaine Elisabetsky E-mail | Website

Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Basic Health Sciences (ICBS), Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, RS 90010, Brazil

Interests: psycho neuropharmacology; ethnopharmacology

Tzu-Hurng Cheng E-mail | Website

Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, China Medical University, 40402 Taichung, Taiwan, China

Interests: molecular cardiology; natural product activity analysis; cardiovascular pharmacology; electrophysiology; traditional Chinese medicine

Ching-Mao Chang E-mail 1 | E-mail 2 | Website

Division of Integrative Medicine, Center for Traditional Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, 11217 Taipei City, Taiwan, China

Interests: dry eye syndrome; rheumatology; complementary and alternative medicine

Mingjie Zi E-mail | Website

Institute of Clinical Pharmacology of Xiyuan Hospital, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, 100091 Beijing, China

Interests: clinical pharmacology; acupuncture; moxibustion

Tzung-Yan Lee E-mail | Website

Graduate Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine, School of Traditional Chinese Medicine, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, 333323 Taoyuan City, Taiwan, China

Interests: traditional Chinese medicine; hepatology; geriatric medicine; ageing; sarcopenia

Zhaohuan Lou E-mail | Website

School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang Chinese Medical University, 310053 Hangzhou, China

Interests: pharmacology studies; traditional Chinese medicine; metabolic disease; hyperlipemia; fatty liver disease; alcoholic liver disease; drug resistance; inflammatory bowel disease; new product development

William Chi-Shing Tai E-mail | Website

1. Mental Health Research Centre, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 999077 Hong Kong, China

2. Department of Applied Biology & Chemical Technology, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 999077 Hong Kong, China

Interests: pre-clinical development of anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory therapeutics from natural compounds and probiotics; functional role of exosomes in molecular pathogenesis of cancer and inflammatory diseases; BK polyomavirus in renal transplantation and outcomes

Yu-Huei Liu E-mail | Website

Drug Development Center, China Medical University, 40402 Taichung City, Taiwan, China

Interests: endocrine-exocrine interaction; immunology; metabolism; mechanisms of cancer progression; pancreatic cancer; breast cancer; functional genomics

Chan-Yen Kuo E-mail | Website

Department of Research, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation, 231405 New Taipei City, Taiwan, China

Interests: role of VHL; development of ccRCC; LON protease; hypoxia-induced cardiomyocyte death; effective nature products; inflammation induced cancer; atherosclerosis; vascular biology; oxidant stress; DNA damage and repair; microenvironment and tumorigenesis; human age-related disease; tissue-derived stem cells

Wanghui Jing E-mail | Website 1 | Website 2

School of Pharmacy, Health Science Center, Xi'an Jiaotong University, 710061 Xi'an, China

Interests: pharmaceutical analysis; effectiveness and controllability of traditional Chinese medicine; development of new traditional Chinese medicines; drug metabolism/transport systems under disease conditions; intestinal flora

Ninghua Jiang E-mail | Website

Department of Pharmacy, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Jiaxing University, 314000 Jiaxing, China

Interests: traditional Chinese medicine in the prevention and treatment of metabolic chronic disease; traditional Chinese medicine in  healthcare; personal health management; chronic disease management; female menstrual disease; menopause; postpartum disease management

Vivek P. Chavda E-mail | Website

Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, L.M. College of Pharmacy, 380009 Ahmedabad, India

Interests: formulation and process development for complex injectables, biologics, and immunotherapy for cancer and infectious diseases

Zhengming Qian E-mail | Website

HEC Company, HEC R&D Center, 523867 Dongguan, Guangdong, China

Interests: quality evaluation of herbal medicine; screening active ingredients from herbal medicine

Guozhen Cui E-mail | Website

Zhuhai Campus of Zunyi Medical University, 519041 Zhuhai, Guangdong Province, China

Interests: drug screening; drug targets; network medicine; multi-omics; data mining

Yongqiu Zheng E-mail | Website 1 | Website 2

Division of Provincial Engineering Laboratory for Screening and Re-evaluation of Active Compounds of Herbal Medicines in Southern Anhui, Wannan Medical College, 241001 Wuhu, Anhui, China

Interests: immunologic disease; cardiovascular disease; cerebral ischemia; neuroscience; potential molecular mechanisms of traditional Chinese compound; irritable bowel syndrome; non-alcoholic fatty liver disease; vascular calcification; network pharmacology