Introduction of Academic Department of Natural Medicine
The Academic Department of Natural Medicine (ADNM) was established in 2012. ADNM is composed of two teaching and researching units (Pharmacognosy and Natural Products Chemistry). ADNM owns 2 key laboratories, the Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Analysis and the Key Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine Chemistry. ADNM undertakes the teaching work related to undergraduate and graduate students, and offers courses for undergraduates, such as Pharmacognosy, Natural medicinal chemistry, Pharmaceuticalbotany and so on. Among them, Natural medicinal chemistry is the municipal first-class undergraduate course. ADNM also offers multiple courses for the master's and doctoral candidates.
The Academic Department of Natural Medicine has a excellent teaching team with 11 teachers, including 3 professors, 4 associate professors, and 5 lecturers, 90.9% of whom are doctoral degree holders. Among them, two staffs are doctoral supervisors and two are master’s supervisors. In recent years, ADNM has obtained 7 projects of National Natural Science Foundation of China, 9 projects of Ministry of Education, Tianjin Science and Technology Commission and other provincial and ministerial level projects, published 45 SCI-indexed papers, applied for 1 international PCT invention patent, 8 national invention patents, obtained 10 authorization.
Members
Hong-Quan Duan | Ph.D. | Professor | Doctoral supervisor |
Wei Qiao | Ph.D. | Professor | Doctoral supervisor |
Ye Zhou Sheng-An Tang | Ph.D. Ph.D. | Professor Associate Professor | Master supervisor |
Jie Teng | Ph.D. | Associate Professor | |
Cheng Tang | Ph.D. | Associate Professor | Master supervisor |
Gong Zhang | | Lecturer | |
Pei-Yong Hou | Ph.D. | Lecturer | |
Cai-Xia Dong | Ph.D. | Associate Professor | |
Ying Chen | Ph.D. | Lecturer | |
Mei-Na Jin | Ph.D. | Lecturer | |
Yang Yu | Ph.D. | Lecturer | |
Professor Hong-Quan Duan, as director of the Department of natural medicine, research on the discovery of bioactive lead compounds, derivative synthesis, target fishing and molecular mechanism from Traditional Chinese Medicine and natural products. In recent years, several anti-tumor metastasis and anti-diabetic candidates with their direct targets were reported by Prof. Duan’s group.
Research field
1. Research on the discovery of bioactive lead compounds, derivative synthesis, target fishing and molecular mechanism from Traditional Chinese Medicine and natural products, including anti-diabetic, anti-tumor metastasis, antidepressant and sedative-hypnotic, anti-rheumatoid arthritis active compounds, and their derivatives synthesis.
2. Focus on the structural characterization and functional evaluation on anti-tumor, anti-virus, immunomodulating, and gut flora of active polysaccharides from medicinal plants
3. Study on the bioactive analysis method based on the interactive mechanism between compounds and functional proteins, and found the biological chromatographic system, which was used for high through screening of active compounds from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
