Supervisor of Doctorate Candidates
Professor Rui Tan is a Professor and PhD Supervisor at Southwest Jiaotong University, a member of the Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission, and Director of the Sichuan Innovation Research and Translational Center for Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ethnic Medicine. He is also recognized as an Academic and Technical Leader of Sichuan Province and a Leading Talent in Healthcare of Sichuan Province. Prof. Tan conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and was a short-term visiting scholar at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has received seven provincial and ministerial Science and Technology Progress Awards as the first, second, or third contributor. He has published more than 300 academic papers in domestic and international journals, formulated or revised over 100 statutory standards. His research focuses on the activity-guided discovery and development of bioactive constituents from traditional Chinese medicine and Tibetan medicine, with particular emphasis on applying biotechnology to identify lead molecules from traditional Chinese medicine and elucidate their mechanisms of action. His current work centers on clinically effective small molecules from traditional Chinese and Tibetan medicine that regulate stem cell fate for the treatment of major diseases, including neurological injury and cancer.
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