zhang bo li, doctor of science honoris causa
prof. zhang bo li for over forty years has been committed to clinical, educational, and research engagements in tcm, devoting himself mainly to the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases using tcm and the modernization of tcm studies; he has hosted a series of national ‘973 program’ with great performance and fruitful outcomes. he has overcome many complex medical problems in the medical and medicinal world, winning national acclaim and international attention from the medical field. professor zhang bo li is an honorable tcm physician, an academician of the chinese academy of engineering, president of the china academy of chinese medical sciences and president of tianjin university of traditional chinese medicine. he is the technological vice-chief-designer of the significant project “innovation of significant new drugs”, a member of the state council health reform advisory commission, executive member of the chinese pharmacopoeia commission, chief committee member of the professional committee of chinese medicine, chief committee member of the chinese medicine educational instruction committee of the ministry of education, and chairman of the educational instruction committee of the world federation of chinese medicine societies; he also holds the position of vice-chairman of many professional medical associations.
prof. zhang bo li is a remarkable role model in succeeding and innovating tcm. he has invented a new method of innovating modern chinese medicine based on component formulas, and has successfully developed many chinese material medical combination components, leading the modernization of tcm. he has proposed the strategy of secondary development of tcm patent medicine and established the relevant technological platforms, prompting the technological upgrade of the tcm industry. he has created the cerebrospinal fluid pharmacology method and revealed the protection mechanism of tcm for neural cells. he has established systematic methods and key techniques in tcm evidence-based evaluations, which have provided the methodological basis for large-scale tcm evidence-based evaluations.
prof. zhang bo li has dedicated himself to the great cause of medical education for several decades, persevering in, and consistently leading by example in the educational work of students. not only is he now a teacher of many students from all over the world, but he has also made donations to establish the “yong bo” fund to sponsor the younger generation and has won the first-class national teaching achievement awards. he has hosted and drafted the first chinese standard of chinese medicine undergraduate (pre-cmd) education and has become the first to promote nation-wide tcm professional recognition; he has assembled experts from many countries to draft the world standard of chinese medicine undergraduate (pre-cmd) education, which has already been released and implemented and is safeguarding the healthy development of global tcm education.
as a representative of the eleventh and twelfth national people’s congress, professor zhang bo li has been active in contributing comments and ideas; he has provided over thirty proposals concerning legislation for tcm, foster the great tcm health industry, establishment of protection mechanisms for intellectual property of tcm wisdom, incorporating tcm into national strategic management and development and other topics to the national people’s congress and other governmental departments; his efforts have promoted the healthy development of tcm.
over the past years, prof. zhang bo li has won 6 national science and technology awards, 20 first-prize and second-prize provincial and ministerial science awards, authorized more than 20 patents, published more than 200 papers, edited more than 10 academic works, and gained many national honorary titles. he has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the baptist university of hong kong and has been involved with many national and international higher education institutions as a distinguished professor or honorary professor.