Director and Professor
Chinese University of Hong Kong, The, Hong Kong
Professor Joan Zuo holds a B. Sc. and a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences and has had over 20 years’ experience in the biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics fields. Since she joined the School of Pharmacy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in Jan. 2000, Prof. Zuo has secured over 23 million continuous supports from various grant agencies such as University Grant Council, Innovation Technology Foundation, Food and Health Bureau in Hong Kong SAR as PI to support her series investigations on biopharmaceutics and pharmacokinetics of both western drug molecule and herbal bioactive components. Her research achievements have been applied to areas such as improvement of quality control and delivery of western drugs as well as herbal products, elucidation or even prediction of potential herb/drug interactions in vivo. Prof. Zuo’s research findings in the above fields have generated over 300 original research and conference papers and patents of USA, China, Hong Kong and Malaysia. In Hong Kong, Prof. Zuo is serving in the Pharmacy & Poison’s Board, Pharmacovigilance Committee, TCM Research and Development Committee and Proprietary Traditional Chinese Medicine Registration Committee at the government of Hong Kong Special Administration Region, China. Internationally, Prof. Zuo is the Fellow of American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and has served as nomination committee member for International Society of Xenobiotics (ISSX). Currently, she is the regional editor of European Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences and editorial board member for Biopharmaceutics and Drug Dispositions, Xenobiotica, Chinese Medicine and, grant reviewer for China and Macau, and journal reviewer for more than 50 international peer reviewed journals.