The Research and Development Division (RDD) has been set up to co-ordinate knowledge transfer activities at the School of Chinese Medicine. RDD facilitates the academic side of herbal drug R&D within the School and with other university departments, local and overseas institutions. Together with IACM Ltd which covers the commercial and manufacturing side of the activities, the two units fulfil the function of knowledge transfer within the field of traditional Chinese medicine.
| 1. | Develop modern scientific and technical methodology relevant to traditional Chinese medicine practices; |
| 2. | Offer consultancy and testing services to Chinese medicine-related industries and other sectors via its research and development programmes; |
| 3. | Build up strategic partnerships with local, regional and international enterprises for the development of Chinese medicine-related products; |
| 4. | Offer teaching and training platforms on analytical and basic medical sciences at undergraduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral levels. |
RDD has established a complete chain of quality assurance services, R&D facilities in bioactivity and toxicity screening, and product development facilities for the production of Chinese materia medica through its laboratories:
| 1. | Quality Research Laboratory/Phytochemistry Laboratory |
| The laboratory provides general platform to support phytochemistry and quality control studies in Chinese materia medica and related products. | |
| 2. | Quality Research Laboratory/Separation Laboratory |
| The laboratory equipped with various advance equipment such as liquid chromatograph/mass spectrometer (LC/MS), gas chromatograph/mass spectrometer (GC/MS), Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometer (ICP/MS), liquid chromatograph with various detectors to support research work in Chinese medicine. | |
| 3. | Authentication and Safety Testing ISO/IEC 17025 Laboratories |
| In addition to R&D work on chemical standardization, chemical fingerprinting and other analytical testing services, ISO/IEC 17025 safety testing for QA compliance required by the regulatory agents is also provided. |
Source: Calendar/Bulletin 2013-2014
Last modified: July 2013
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