Dr. Wei Lu from University of West Australia visited RCDD from July 19 to 21, 2012. Dr. Lu has being working with Ling Wang and Xiu Le in initiating a drug screening protocol against H. Plylori.
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From June 18th to 29th, Jiabo Li, a leading scientist of Accelrys, came to visit RCDD. During these two weeks, Li gave several lectures to graduate students and talked about the work progress. Zhihong Liu, a first-year graduate student, said that Li gave an excellent lecture on genetic algorithm(GA), and now he could optimize the parameter with the help of GA. Li is very popular with the students. Because student always learn a lot from Li, especially the way to solve problems.
On June 19, Prof. Jun Xu visited Prof. Tietao Deng, the Grand Master of TCM in China, on the campus of Guangzhou TCM University. Prof. Deng warmly welcomed Prof. Xu, and talked with Prof. Xu for more than one hour. Prof. Xu told Prof. Deng that we should humbly study TCM theories; the discovery of new medical solutions should be based upon deep understanding the classic work and TCM clinic experience. “We should promote TCM by combining west and east medicine”, Prof. Xu emphasized.
According to UWA (University of West Australia) News, DIISR AUSTRALIA CHINA SCIENCE AND RESEARCH FUND has been approved for Professor Barry Marshall, Professor Jun Xu, Dr Wei Lu, and Alfred Tay, School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine of UWA, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences of Sun Yat-sen University: ‘Strengthening collaboration with Sun Yat-Sen University on novel chemical drug development against H.pylori infection’— $29,500 (2012). (UWA News, 28 May 2012: Volume 31, #7, p 15)
Starting on June 3, 2012, per the invitation of Prof. Berry Marshall, Nobel laureate, Prof. Jun Xu visited University of West Australia (UWA) in Perth.
On June 4th, Prof. Xu Visited UWA and Marsahll Center.
On June 5th, Prof. Xu delivered a speech entitled “Drug discovery @ the intersection of East and West” in School of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Marshall Centre for Infectious disease) of UWA.
On May 8, 2012, Prof. Jun Xu met Prof. J. Andrew McCammon, a Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, on University of California San Diego. Two professors exchanged ideas on computational chemistry and applications in pharmaceutical researches, and decided to initiate collaborations between two groups.
On Tuesday May 15, 2012, per the invitation of Prof. Michael K. Gilson, Director of UCSD Drug Discovery Institute (DDI), Skaggs School of Pharm. and Pharm. Sci., Prof. Jun Xu visited University of California San Diego. Prof. delivered a talk on “Drug discovery @ the intersection of East and West” at DDI at 4-6pm.
May 30-June 1, 2012, Prof. Jun Xu attended 2012 Innovative TCM and Botanic Drug International Summit in Haining. As a invited speaker, Prof. Xu delivered a talk entitled “East Meeting West: Integrating TCM and West Medicine”. Prof. Xu was chairing the session one: Fundamental research of innovative TCM and botanic drugs and applications.
题 目：化学信息学、化学计量学中若干重要问题及其在现代药物分析中的应用
报告人：梁逸曾 教授
中南大学二级教授，中南大学中药现代化研究中心主任
主持人：徐 峻 教授
中山大学药学院
时 间：2012年5月29日（周二）上午10:00
地 点：中山大学东校区药学院 112会议室
报告人简介：
梁逸曾教授1988年于湖南大学获理学（分析化学）博士学位；1990年6月-1992年10月,获挪威皇家科学与技术委员会（NTNF）的资助在挪威Bergen大学进行博士后研究,并于1994年获挪威哲学博士学位(Dr. Philos.)。
梁逸曾教授从事分析化学、化学计量学和化学信息学、代谢组学、中药化学和中药现代化等方面的研究三十多年，承担国家及省部级科研课题30多项。在国内外知名刊物发表论文450多篇，其中340多篇在国际性刊物上发表。出版专著、译著教材共12本。为我国的化学计量学和化学信息学的发展和中药现代化研究作出了重要贡献。
此外，梁逸曾教授还担任《Near Infrared Analysis》、《J. Separation Science》、《Chemometrics and Intelligent laboratory Systems》等国际杂志的编委和副主编。
梁教授是性情中人，演讲激情满怀，用辞幽默，言近旨远，敬请各位师生不要错过大师演讲的好机会！
2012年5月29日，药物分子设计研究中心2012届硕士学位论文答辩会在药学院112室举行。本次答辩委员会由中南大学化学化工学院的梁逸曾教授担任主席，委员会的成员还包括：中山大学附属第一医院裴中教授，中国科学院广州生物医药与健康研究所许永研究员等。参加本次答辩会的七名研究生均顺利通过答辩，祝贺各位！
题目: Perfect Marriage of TCM and Computational Systems Biology
报告人: 陈语谦博士
中国药科大学（台湾）
主持人：徐峻 教授
中山大学药学院
时间: 2011年 11月24日（周四）下午2：30
地点：中山大学东校区药学院125会议室
报告人简介:
Dr. Calvin Yu-Chian Chen is a Research Fellow and advisor in China Medical University and its affiliated Beigang Hospital. He also a research fellow in Harvard medical school and adjunct professor of the Department of Bioinformatics in Asia University. Dr. Chen built the world’s largest TCM database (TCM database@Taiwan) and the world’s first cloud-computing CADD system (iScreen.cmu.edu.tw). Dr. Chen’s laboratory focuses on interdisciplinary issues, such as bioinformatics, systems biology, chemoinformatics, and pharmainformatics, and investigates biological problems by means of mathematic, physical, chemical, and computational methods. He completed his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering in 2001 and postdoctoral training at Sinica and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT, program of Computational and Systems Biology).
Title: Traditional Chinese Medicine Informatics
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) drugs comprise multiple compounds regulating multiple targets for a given class of medical indications, and are tunable to the symptoms of the individual. This seminar presents case studies on deducing novel TCM anti-influenza and anti-hyperlipedemia prescriptions from structure biology. The studies suggest that, by further investigating TCM theory and mining TCM databases, a better drug discovery paradigm may arise – one that can be beneficial to both TCM and modern medicine.
See also:
link from University of Sydney
http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/ChinaStudiesCentre/2265.html?newscategoryid=208&newsstoryid=6821