About Yanhua Lu’s work
From February to August 2001, Yanhua Lu held a Croucher Visitorship at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. At the time, Lu was based at Nanjing University.
Biography
Yanhua Lu graduated from the School of Life Sciences of Nanjing University in 1993 with a master’s degree and from the School of Chinese Medicine of China Pharmaceutical University in 1999 with a doctorate in pharmacognosy. Lu was the Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee and Deputy Dean of the School of Bioengineering of East China University of Science and Technology. From 1999 to 2001, she worked as a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Life Sciences, Nanjing University.
Her research scope includes the preparation and mechanism of active ingredients and plant standard extracts of traditional Chinese medicine, the extraction process and technology of reference substances and plant standard extracts of traditional Chinese medicine, the application of biotransformation in the structural modification and production of natural medicines, the qualitative and quantitative analysis of chemical fingerprints and active ingredients of traditional Chinese medicines, the research on the quality evaluation and standardization of quality standards of Chinese herbal medicines, the development and utilization of Chinese herbal medicine and marine medicine resources.