Assistant Professor, Teaching and Research Division
Expert in natural product chemistry, chemical analysis of Chinese herbal medicines and application of high-speed counter-current chromatography.
Dr. Simon Quan-Bin Han obtained his PhD in natural product chemistry at Kunming Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy Sciences in 2003 and was granted “The President Award” by the Academy. 2004-2009, he was a Scientist at Hong Kong Jockey Club Institute of Chinese Medicine. 2009-6.2011, he worked for the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Research Assistant Professor. Now he is an Assistant Professor at School of Chinese Medicine, Hong Kong Baptist University.
His research interests are focused on natural product chemistry, quality control methodology, HSCCC’s application in drug discovery. With years of research experiences, Dr. Han has published over one hundred research papers in scientific journals such as Natural Product Reports, Current Medicinal Chemistry, Organic Letter, Journal of Chromatography A, Journal of Natural Products, etc, being the first author for nearly forty of them. His research got financial support from several government funding agencies, like National Natural Sciences Foundation in China, HKSAR Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), and Health and Health Services Research Fund, etc.
Funded Projects
Project 1 | Title: A Dendrobium QC marker and its use in quick efficient and low-cost herb authentication Principal Investigator: Dr. Han Quan-Bin Funding Body: MPCF-HKBU Project ID: KTO 03-26-042 Exercise Year: 2014/2015 Approved Project Duration: 12 months Project Fund: HK$ 200,000 Coordinator: Mr. Li Xiao-Jun |
Project 2 | Title: Anti-EV71 agents from Zhimu Principal Investigator: Dr. Han Quan-Bin Funding Body: Research Committee of Hong Kong Baptist Universityt University Project ID: FRG2/13-14/026 Exercise Year: 2014/2015 Approved Project Duration: 12 months Project Fund: HK$ 120,000 Coordinator: Dr. Han Quan-Bin |
Project 3 | Title: The clinical potential of Astragalus polysaccharides in cancer therapy via synergism with antitumor drugs Principal Investigator: Dr. Han Quan-Bin Funding Body: Health Medical Research Fund Project ID: No. 11122531 Exercise Year: 2014/2016 Approved Project Duration: 24 months Project Fund: HK$ HK$ 994,800 Coordinator: Wan-Rong Bao |
Research Assistant
Preventive Veterinary Medicine
Email:baowanrong@gmail.com
Research Assistant
Natural medicine chemistry and molecular biology
Traditional Chinese Medicine in English
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Publication Records: 5 patents; 140+ SCI Papers;
Ten Representative publications in the past ten years: