Hongjie Zhang
Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Title: Plants as an important source of enormous novel chemical structures for drug discovery
Biography
Biography: Hongjie Zhang
Abstract
It is estimated that 300,000 higher plants are distributed in the world, and only a small number of them have been phytochemically and biologically investigated. A plant extract may contain thousands of small molecule of compounds, and majority of them are still waiting for us to explore. In our search of bioactive lead compounds from plants, we have evaluated several thousands of plant extracts for their bioactivities against different disease targets such as cancer, HIV, Ebola and athlete foot