Professor Bo-LI Zhang
Professor Zhang, Principle of the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine of China.
Professor Zhang mainly engages in the teaching, clinical and research work on vascular dementia, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and stroke diseases. He created the cerebrospinal fluid pharmacological method to reveal the mechanism of Chinese medicine on the protection of nerve cells and blood stasis hyperviscosity. Professor Zhang has established the first Engineering Research Institute to carry out the objective study of tongue by Chinese medicine.
During 2003 SARS epidemic disaster, he worked as the chief commander of the Tianjin TCM treatment team of SARS. He concluded the syndromes, characteristics, pathogenesis and treatment of SARS, which were promulgated by the World Health Organization and published in several journals. Professor Zhang has published more than two hundred academic papers and undertaken two projects of the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973). He has received a total of five National Science and Technology Progress Awards, more than twenty scientific and technological progress awards of provincial and ministerial level. Besides, Professor Zhang has been granted a total of 16 patents.