Song Jianping

Background

He was born in Huichang county, Jiangxi Province.

Career

He is currently the deputy director of Research Center for Qinghao of the Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine. He has been engaged for decades in the teaching of Synopsis of Prescriptions of the Golden Chamber and classical prescription theory as well as clinical research. He embarked on the research of tropical diseases treated with Chinese medicine since 1998, of which his clinical research on artemisinin derivatives and artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) are on a leading level internationally.

Song Jianping has nineteen academic papers published at home and abroad and has written nineteen original articles

He hosts and participates in eight provincial level research projects and four research projects through international cooperation. There are seven Doctor of Philosophy and postgraduate students directly or indirectly under his tutorship, out of which three have graduated.

His meeting report has been included in the technical document of World Health Organization/RBM and its being promoted. His team claims to have completely wiped malaria from the nation of Comoros, a model he hopes to implement in other African countries.

Achievements

• The outcome of his work has won the second prize of national scientific and technological progress award, the second prize of Science and Technology Award of China Association of Chinese Medicine, the second prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Award. He was continuously invited by international organizations such as the World Health Organization, Doctors Without Borders, Mekong River malaria control program, the European Union, Health Ministry of Indonesia, and Health Ministry of Cambodia to attend relevant academic exchange for 15 times where he shared his experiences and achievements on clinical studies of malaria control through ACTs as well as field promotion trials. His achievements have helped immensely in maintaining the reputation of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine as a leading institute in the study field of malaria control through ACTs which exert a great influence internationally. Foreign this activity he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Comoros.

Membership

As one of the major members of a research team, he has taken part in the research of preclinical efficacy pharmacology, safety pharmacology, pharmacokinetic/toxicokinetic, and drug metabolism studies and clinical study for several ACTs.