Prof. Jiang Dong

Executive Director, Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, China

Dr. Jian-Dong JIANG, is the Professor of Pharmacology, Director of Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Director of Institutes of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, and Chairman of Department of Pharmacology, Peking Union Medical College.

He has been working in Mount Sinai Medical Center, Dept of Medicine for over 10 years. He was the director of Institute of Medicinal Biotechnology (IMB), Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences from 1999 to 2010. He also is Vice president of Chinese Association of Pharmaceutical Innovation and Development.

Prof. Jiang’s research area focus on antimicrobial drugs, including viruses & bacteria (one achievement has been used in clinic), anti-cancer drugs (two drug candidates in clinical trial, one in US, the other in China), Drug R&D for metabolic syndrome (one achievement has been used in clinic). He has won National Award of Progress in Science and Technology and National Award of Natural Science. He holds 14 approved drug patents and has published more than 150 papers as corresponding author.