Staff
The Centre staff consist of the faculty of the College of Pharmacy. However, the primary faculty members involved in Centre activities resides in the Program for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences (PCRPS) of the Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Pharmacognosy. A list of senior staff and their areas of expertise follows:
Norman R. Farnsworth, Centre Director. Distinguished University
Professor and Director, Programme for Collaborative Research in the Pharmaceutical
Sciences.
Expertise: Pharmacognosy (biology/pharmacology and chemistry of natural products
drug agents); natural products drug discovery research; traditional medicine;
herbal medicine/dietary supplements uses and regulation; medicinal plant formularies
and monographs.
Harry H. S. Fong, Centre Associate Director and Programme
Coordinator. Professor Emeritus of Pharmacognosy, Programme for Collaborative
Research in the Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and
Pharmacognosy.
Expertise: Pharmacognosy (biology/pharmacology and chemistry of natural products
drug agents); natural products drug discovery research; traditional medicine;
herbal medicine/dietary supplements uses and quality control (QC) analysis and
standardization; medicinal plant monographs and research guidelines; medicinal
plant sourcing by Good Agriculture and Collection practice (GACP).
Gail B. Mahady, Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice.
Expertise: Clincial pharmacognosy (biology/pharmacology and chemistry of natural
products drug agents); traditional medicine; herbal medicine/dietary supplements
uses; medicinal plant monographs.
D. Doel Soejarto, Professor of Pharmacognosy and Biology.
Expertise: Medical botany; medicinal plant sourcing by Good Agriculture and
Collection practice (GACP); biodiversity conservation; and intellectual property
rights of plant genetic materials.
Donald P. Waller, Professor of Pharmacology (Retired).
Expertise: Reproductive biology and toxicology.
Guido Pauli, Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy.
Expertise: Pharmacognosy, natural products drug discovery chemistry; standardization,
quality control and bioactive marker determination of botanical dietary supplements
and traditional medicine.
Jimmy Orjala, Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy.
Expertise: Natural products chemistry.
Z.J. Wang, Associate Professor of Pharmacology.
Expertise: Pharmacology (CNS); biology of botanical dietary supplements and
traditional medicine.
Jerry Bauman, Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Dean, College
of Pharmacy.
Expertise: Clinical practice, evaluation and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Rosalie Sagraves, Professor of Pharmacy Practice, College
of Pharmacy,
Expertise: Clinical practice, evaluation and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Hongjie Zhang, Research Associate Professor of Pharmacognosy.
Expertise: Natural products drug discovery chemistry; standardization, quality
control and bioactive marker determination of Chinese herbal medicine.
Charlotte Gyllenhaal, Research Assistant Professor of Pharmacognosy.
Expertise: Medical botany; intellectual property rights of plant genetic materials;
complementary, alternative, integrative and traditional medicine.