GP-TCM RA Newsletter Nov 2017

Dear GP-TCM RA Members and Friends,

Greetings from London, Mons and Taichung!

Highlights of the November 2017 Edition include:

• 2018 EU budget agreed
• TCM needs proper scrutiny
• Data sharing from clinical trials
• Accounting for sex in the genome
• Invitations from meetings & journals
• Calendar of H2020 calls for 2018 and 2019
• Traditional medicine: A culture in the balance
• The most popular genes in the human genome
• FDA unveils searchable adverse events system
• Medical centers spearhead China’s pharma push
• Meeting reports from Changsha, Shanghai, Taipei to Africa
• TCM for microcirculation dysfunction and chronic heart failure
• Latest statistics on UK’s participation in Horizon 2020 published
• ISO international standard for Panax notoginseng root and rhizome
• Acupuncture for patients with cancer, chronic pain, depression and infertility
• International guidelines for TCM-based diagnosis and treatment of diabetes
• China to roll back regulations for traditional medicine despite safety concerns
• European Network of Research and Innovation of Centres and Hubs launched in China

Last but not least,

• Warmest congratulations to Professors Gerhard Franz, Rob Verpoorte, Thomas Efferth, Rudolf Bauer and Dr Fan Qu for their new honours.

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Best wishes,

Sincerely yours,

Qihe Xu, London

Pierre Duez, Mons and

Yuan-Shiun, Taichung

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Qihe Xu, MD, PhD

Newsletter Editor-in-chief and Board Member, The GP-TCM Research Association

www.gp-tcm.org

Co-Director, King’s Centre for Integrative Chinese Medicine

Senior Lecturer in Renal Medicine

Dept. of Renal Sciences, DTIMB & MRC Centre for Transplantation

Admissions Tutor & Organiser of MSc/MRes Projects, Dept. of Pharmacology

King’s College London

The Rayne Institute

123 Coldharbour Lane

London SE5 9NU

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