About Dean Guo’s work
Dean Guo held a Croucher Visitorship at Hong Kong Polytechnic University from August to September 1999 and from March to June 2000. At the time, Guo was based at Beijing Medical University.
Biography
Dean Guo received his PhD from the School of Pharmacy of Beijing Medical University in 1990, worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Chemistry at Texas Tech University from 1993 to 1996, and served as an associate professor at the School of Pharmacy of Beijing Medical University and a professor at the School of Pharmacy of Peking University from 1996 to 2005. He is a researcher at the Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Director of the National Engineering Laboratory for Standardization of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Guo has been engaged in modern research of traditional Chinese medicine for more than 30 years, and has made remarkable achievements in basic and applied research related to the quality standards of traditional Chinese medicine and promoting the internationalization of traditional Chinese medicine. Guo was the first Chinese scholar to introduce the standards of traditional Chinese medicine into the United States Pharmacopoeia and the European Pharmacopoeia.