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Dean Guo, principal investigator/leading scientist of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, director of National Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology, director of Research Center for Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Obtained his Ph. D of Pharmacognosy in Beijing Medical University in 1990. Worked as a postdoctor in Department of Chemistry and Biochemisty,Texas Tech University, USA from 1993 to 1996. Principal social concurrent posts include Member of Drug Evaluation Committee of SFDA, Member of the Executive Committee of the National Pharmacopoeia Committee, Expert Committee member of United States Pharmacopoeia, Board Memberand Advisor of Society for Medicinal Plant Research (GA), Advisor and Expert of Panel of the American Botanical Council (ABC). He also serves as Associate editor or Editorial Board member of 16 international journals such as Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Planta Medica, and etc.