Marine Drugs and Natural Products

Biography

Heru Chen has completed his Ph.D from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with Prof. Richard K. Haynes as supervisor. He got postdoctoral training with Prof. Dr. Peter W. Schiller in the Clinical Research Institute of Montreal, Canada. Then he worked as a visiting scholar in research group of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Scherkenbeck in Wuppertal University, Germany. Since March 2008, he has been a full-time professor and research director in the Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Natural Products, College of Pharmacy, Jinan University, China. He has published more than 80 papers in reputed journals and serving as editorial board members of several reputed journals.

Research Interest

My research interests are directed toward the idenfication of bioactive compound, the total synthesis, and structural modification of natural products from Chinese herds, drug design and synthesis based on natural lead compounds, mechanism study of natural products, peptide investigation initiated from natural peptides, the interface of organic chemistry and cell biology.