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(AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 18, 2013) The American Botanical Council (ABC) recognizes this year\u2019s ABC Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award recipient, Professor De-an Guo, PhD, of Shanghai, China.
\nOver the course of his career, Dr. Guo\u2019s research has centered on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) quality control, biochemistry, and metabolism; his phytochemical investigations of traditional Chinese herbal medicines have resulted in the identification of 100 new chemical entities. In addition to his professorship, Dr. Guo serves as director of the State Engineering Laboratory for TCM Standardization Technology and as director of the Shanghai Research Center for TCM Modernization at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He earned his doctorate in pharmacognosy from Beijing Medical University\u2019s School of Pharmaceutical Sciences in 1990, and conducted his postdoctoral studies in the department of chemistry and biochemistry at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas.<\/p>\n
Among his many accomplishments, including more than 430 published scientific papers to date, Dr. Guo acted as the vice-editor-in-chief of the 2005 edition of the\u00a0Pharmacopoeia of the People\u2019s Republic of China<\/em>\u00a0and editor-in-chief of the 2010 edition. At present, he sits on the editorial boards of several highly respected international scientific journals, including\u00a0Planta Medica<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Phytomedicine<\/em>. Dr. Guo is an expert committee member of the United States Pharmacopeia and a member of the ABC Advisory Board.<\/p>\n \u201cProfessor Guo is not only an\u00a0established scientist, he has provided leadership in\u00a0the\u00a0modernization of TCM,\u201d said past recipient of ABC\u2019s Farnsworth Award, Professor Ikhlas Khan, PhD, a research professor of pharmacognosy and associate director of the National Center for Natural Products Research at the University of Mississippi.\u00a0\u201cHe is a deserving\u00a0recipient and\u00a0I am\u00a0proud to call him\u00a0my\u00a0friend.\u201d<\/p>\n The Excellence in Botanical Research Award\u2019s namesake is ABC\u2019s co-founding Board of Trustees member, the late Professor Norman R. Farnsworth, PhD, a research professor of pharmacognosy and senior university scholar in the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois \u2013 Chicago. When Professor Farnsworth died in 2011 at the age of 81, the medicinal plant community lost one of its greatest champions. ABC will continue to present this award each year to a person or institution that has made significant contributions to ethnobotanical and\/or pharmacognostic research (i.e<\/em>., research on drugs of natural origin, usually from plants).<\/p>\n \u201cWe are most pleased to be able to recognize and honor Professor Guo for his outstanding achievements in the chemistry and pharmacology of many traditional Chinese medicinal plants,\u201d said ABC Founder and Executive Director Mark Blumenthal. \u201cHe is clearly one of the leading figures in scientific medicinal plant research in China, a country with a vast spectrum of traditionally used medicinal plants that are undergoing modern scientific research and validation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI am very pleased and honored to receive the high distinction of ABC\u2019s Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award. I would like to thank ABC and the nominating committee who selected me for this award in 2013,\u201d said Dr. Guo. \u201cThis reflects the world-wide coverage of ABC\u2019s Farnsworth Award,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n Previous recipients of ABC\u2019s Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award include Joseph M. Betz, PhD, of the Office of Dietary Supplements at the US National Institutes of Health (2006); Professor Edzard Ernst, MD, PhD, formerly of the Peninsula Medical School at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom (2007); Professor Hildebert Wagner, PhD, of the Institute for Pharmaceutical Biology in Munich, Germany (2008); Dr. Khan (2009); Professor Rudolf Bauer, PhD, head of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences at the Karl-Franzens University of Graz\u00a0<\/strong>in Austria (2010); Professor A. Douglas Kinghorn, PhD, chair of the department of medicinal chemistry and pharmacognosy in the College of Pharmacy at Ohio State University (2011); and Professor Djaja D. Soejarto, PhD, of the College of Pharmacy at the University of Illinois \u2013 Chicago (2012).<\/p>\n Dr. Guo will receive the ABC Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award at the 8th<\/sup>\u00a0Annual ABC Botanical Celebration and Awards Ceremony in March in Anaheim, California. The ABC event occurs during the annual Nutracon nutrition, natural products, and dietary supplements conference and Natural Products Expo West.<\/p>\n The ABC Botanical Celebration and Awards Ceremony is underwritten by generous contributions from the following members of the herb, dietary supplement, and natural products industry (i.e<\/em>., raw material suppliers, supplement and tea manufacturers, analytical laboratories, a law firm, an insurer, a media company, and a trade organization):<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Original Link: http:\/\/abc.herbalgram.org\/site\/MessageViewer?em_id=22261.0&dlv_id=60962 (AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 18, 2013) The American Botanical Council (ABC) recognizes this year\u2019s ABC Norman R. 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