02.21.13
The American Botanical Council (ABC), Austin, TX, has recognized this year’s ABC Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award recipient, Professor De-an Guo, PhD, of Shanghai, China. Over the course of his career, Dr. Guo’s research has centered on Traditional Chinese Medicine 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. Dr. Guo is an expert committee member of the United States Pharmacopeia and a member of the ABC Advisory Board.
