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| Qian Zhengming conducts his oral defense |
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| Huang Weihua (middle) with Examination Committee members |
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| Chen Xiaojia (4th from left) with Examination Committee members |
Three PhD students of the University of Macau’s (UM) Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS), who are no strangers to giving quality evaluation on Chinese medicines, were recently put on the receiving end of quality evaluation at their oral defenses. They passed the oral defenses with flying colours, receiving unanimous praise from Examination Committee members from the United States, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong and Macao. According to Examination Committee member Prof. Karl Tsim, who is from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), the quality of the UM candidates is so high that it compares favourably with the quality of his top PhD students at HKUST.
The three PhD candidates highly praised by the international experts on the Examination Committee are Qian Zhengming, Huang Weihua and Chen Xiaojia. Qian’s thesis is titled “Analysis of Global Components in Water Extracts of Ten Valued Traditional Chinese Medicines Using Liquid Chromatography System with Multiple Columns and Detectors”. Chen’s thesis, titled “Development of Microscale Separation Techniques for Quality Control of Chinese Medicines”, focuses on the analysis of flavonoids and nucleosides in selected Chinese medicines using microscale separation techniques including capillary electrophoresis and capillary electrochromatography. Both the theses are helpful for the overall quality control of traditional Chinese medicines. Huang’s thesis is titled “Chemical Study of Oplopanax horridus”, and focuses on the discovery of active substances from Oplopanax horridus to make the use of this traditional medicine safer and more efficient.
Apart from Prof. Tsim, other members on the Examination Committee included UM’s Vice Rector (Research) Prof. Rui Martins; ICMS and the State Key Laboratory of Quality Research in Chinese Medicine (UM) Director Prof. Wang Yitao; Prof. Li Shaoping, Prof. Lee Ming-Yuen, Prof. Zheng Ying and Dr. Zhang Qingwen from ICMS; Prof. Ziad El Rassi from Oklahoma State University, U.S.; Prof. Frantisek Svec from the University of California, Berkeley, U.S.; Prof. Jun Haginaka from Mukogawa Women’s University, Japan; Prof. Yeong Shik Kim from Seoul National University, South Korea; Prof. Zhang Yukui from the Chinese Academy of Sciences; and Prof. Yu Rongmin from Jinan University, China.
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