Agilent Technologies Presents Thought Leader Award to Renowned Medicinal Scientist in China
April 29 2016 - 11:00AM
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Dr. Shilin Chen Recognized for Herbal
Genomics Research
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today announced that Dr.
Shilin Chen has received an Agilent Thought Leader Award in support
of his groundbreaking herbal genomics research using multi-omics
techniques.
Dr. Chen directs the Institute of Chinese Materia Medica at the
China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences in Beijing. The institute
strives to identify the active ingredients in traditional Chinese
medicines and make new drugs.
The award will fund the use of integrated biology—including
various multi-omic solutions from Agilent—to generate important
biological data sets related to the biosynthesis of bioactive
compounds from herbs, including artemisinin and glycyrrhizin, for
example.
Through his research, Dr. Chen hopes to deepen understanding of
the mechanism by which herbal medicines disrupt diseases and
identify relevant biomarkers, which could then point the way to new
drug discovery.
“We are delighted to receive an Agilent Thought Leader Award. It
will allow us to incorporate integrated experimental and
bioinformatics approaches to traditional Chinese medicine,” said
Dr. Chen. “Our group is focusing on dissecting and understanding
the biosynthesis and regulatory mechanisms responsible for specific
metabolic processes generated by natural herbs. We have initiated
the herbal genomic project, and Agilent’s innovative technologies
and unique solutions can provide new tools and approaches to help
us combine metabolomics and genomics in the study of traditional
Chinese medicine. We are looking forward to working collaboratively
with Agilent scientists to accelerate the discovery and
characterization of new medicines.”
“We are pleased to support Dr. Chen’s efforts in the
systems-level analysis of herbal metabolic processes using
integrated omics approaches,” said Dr. Teng Chai Hock, vice
president and general manager of Agilent’s Life Sciences and
Applied Markets Group in Greater China. “Dr. Chen’s research is a
prime example of continued innovation in traditional Chinese
medicine through the application of advanced analytical
methods.”
The Agilent Thought Leader Award promotes fundamental scientific
advances by contributing financial support, products and expertise
to the research of influential thought leaders in the life
sciences, diagnostics and applied chemical markets. Information
about previous award recipients is available at Agilent's Thought
Leader website.
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