Professor Zhang, Principle of the Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Academician of Chinese Academy of Engineering, Vice-President of the Chinese Association of Integrative Medicine of China. 

Professor Zhang mainly engages in the teaching, clinical and research work on vascular dementia, cardiovascular, cerebrovascular and stroke diseases. He created the cerebrospinal fluid pharmacological method to reveal the mechanism of Chinese medicine on the protection of nerve cells and blood stasis hyperviscosity. Professor Zhang has established the first Engineering Research Institute to carry out the objective study of tongue by Chinese medicine. 

During 2003 SARS epidemic disaster, he worked as the chief commander of the Tianjin TCM treatment team of SARS. He concluded the syndromes, characteristics, pathogenesis and treatment of SARS, which were promulgated by the World Health Organization and published in several journals. Professor Zhang has published more than two hundred academic papers and undertaken two projects of the National Key Basic Research Program of China (973). He has received a total of five National Science and Technology Progress Awards, more than twenty scientific and technological progress awards of provincial and ministerial level. Besides, Professor Zhang has been granted a total of 16 patents.

Prof Chi-Ming Che  

Prof Chi-Ming Che received BSc (1978) and PhD (1982) degrees from The University of Hong Kong (HKU). Following research studies at the California Institute of Technology from 1980 to 1983, he joined the faculty of the Department of Chemistry at HKU in 1983 and was promoted in 1992 to a Chair Professor.  From 1999 -2016, he was appointed Dr. Hui Wai Haan Chair of Chemistry at HKU. Since April 2016, he has been appointed to Zhou Guangzhao Professor in Natural Sciences. He is the director of Partner State Key Laboratory of Synthetic Chemistry and HKU-CAS Joint Laboratory on New Materials. Prof Che is a member of The Chinese Academy of Sciences and a Foreign Associate of National Academy of Sciences, USA. He has received the First Class Prize of the State Natural Science Award of China and the Royal Society of Chemistry Centenary Prize. He was the winner of Leader of the Year (Education/Research Category) in 2007, and he was also awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star from the Hong Kong SAR Government because of his continuous contribution to the scientific research in Hong Kong. He has a current H-index of 97 and is listed as one of the ISI Highly Cited Researchers. Over 140 Ph.D. students have successfully completed their studies under his supervision. He has been awarded a number of lectureships, including the Seaborg Lectureship at the University of California at Berkeley, Julia S. and Edward C. Lee Lectureship at University of Chicago and Davison Lectureship at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.