International Eurasian Academy of Sciences, IEAS

Academician

Luqi HUANG

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Elected Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences in 2014, Professor Luqi Huang is a distinguished Chinese pharmacognosist whose research and professional work have focused on the identification, conservation, and sustainable utilisation of traditional Chinese medicine resources. Born on 12 March 1968, he received his Ph.D. in Pharmacy from Peking Union Medical College in 1995 and was elected Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 2015. He currently serves as Vice Director of the National Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine, President of the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and Chief Research Fellow and Doctoral Supervisor at the same institution. He also serves as Director of the Center for Chinese Medicine Resources, a member of the Pharmacopoeia Commission of the People’s Republic of China and the Expert Committee on National Biological Species Resource Conservation, Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Identification Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Professional Committee of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine, and Chairman of the Chinese Medicine Resource Ecology Professional Committee of the Ecological Society of China. A recipient of the State Council Special Allowance, Professor Huang has received the National Outstanding Scientific and Technological Worker Award, the China Pharmaceutical Development Award, the China Youth May 4th Medal, the China Youth Science and Technology Award, and the title of National Outstanding Young Expert with Outstanding Contributions from the Ministry of Health, among other distinctions.

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Professor Huang’s research has focused on the identification, quality control, conservation, and ecological cultivation of traditional Chinese medicine resources, with particular emphasis on the molecular authentication of medicinal species, the sustainable harvesting of wild medicinal resources, and the development of good agricultural practice standards for cultivated medicinal plants. Through national research programmes and international collaborative networks, he has contributed to the scientific development of traditional Chinese medicine resource management and to the standardisation of quality assurance practices. His research has received three National Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Prize), two Beijing Science and Technology Progress Awards (Second Prize), two Science and Technology Awards from the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine (Second Prize), two Science and Technology Awards from the China Association of Chinese Medicine (Second Prize), and two Chinese Medical Science and Technology Awards (one Second Prize and one Third Prize). Through sustained research and engagement in national and international scientific collaboration, Professor Huang has contributed to connecting traditional Chinese medicine resource science with modern approaches to pharmacognosy, quality control, and sustainable resource utilisation.