Abstract:

  Dr. Hubiao Chen, the member of Editorial Board of Journal of Chinese Pharmaceutical Sciences, graduated from Hunan Normal University in 1983. He obtained his PhD degree at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Beijing Medical University in 1988.From 1989–2006, he served at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Peking UniversityHealth Science Center as a lecturer (1989), associate professor (1990) and professor (1997). During that period, he also went to Tokyo Metropolitan University as a visiting scholar in 1995 and worked as an assistant professor at Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kanazawa University from 2000–2002 in Japan. Dr. Chen is currently an associate professor and programmedirector of Bachelor of Pharmacy (Hons) in Chinese Medicine programmeat the School of Chinese Medicine at Hong Kong Baptist University. Over the years, he has specialized in research in plant taxonomy, chemistry of natural products and scientific research into the resource and quality assessment of Chinese medicinal materials. He has published over 160 associated papers in domestic and international journals. Dr. Chen also serves as member of the editorialboard for several professional publications, and has written more than 40 books that are related with plant taxonomy, medicinal botany and Chinese herbal medicines. In addition, he also actively promotes the Chinese medicine digitalization and has launched two online databases of medicinal plants and Chinese medicinal materials. This Project received 2012 American Library Association (ALA) Presidential Citation for Innovative International Library award.

Key words: Editor , profile,  , Hubiao Chen