Research Achievements

The Chinese medicine discipline is within the ambits of Health and Drug Discovery and Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence in X, which are two of the three strategic research clusters of Hong Kong Baptist University.  Established in 1999, the School of Chinese Medicine is committed to achieving excellence in its core research areas, thereby contributing to the overall success of the University as well as the modernisation, standardisation and internationalisation of Chinese medicine.

Our major achievements in recent years include:

Research projects

• Research on space life science of SCM conducted on China's first cargo spacecraft Tianzhou 1
• SCM expert leads development of guidelines for better reporting of trials of Chinese herbal medicine formulae
• SCM researchers develop Hong Kong's first USFDA-designated orphan drug

External Grants

• Won 16 external grants amounting to over HK$13 million in AY2018-19
• Won 1 grant from National Natural Science Foundation of China and 8 grants from General Research Fund / Early Career Scheme of Research Grants Council in AY2018-19

Research Output

• Published 123 refereed papers in international SCI journals in AY2018-19
• Obtained 16 patents and filed 12 patent applications in AY2018-19