Professor Kelvin Chan has taught in Chinese University of Hong Kong, Liverpool John Moores University UK, Ministry of Health, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Hong Kong Baptist University HK since 1981. He has held Chair Professorship of Pharmacy & Biomedical Sciences in the Liverpool John Moores University, Chair Professorship & Scientific Director of the Zayed Complex for Herbal Research & Traditional Medicine of the Ministry of Health in Abu Dhabi UAE and Director and Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the Institute for the Advancement of Chinese Medicine at Baptist University in Hong Kong. He now holds Chair Professorship of Pharmacy and Pharmacology and is the Director of Research & Development in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of Wolverhampton. Professor Kelvin Chan is a Registered Pharmacist (UK), Chartered Biologist (UK) and Chartered Clinical Pharmacologist (USA). He received PhD in Clinical Pharmacology and DSc in Pharmacology at the University of Birmingham, UK Professor Kelvin Chan received the British Pharmaceutical Science Award in 1983 and Distinguished Award of Leadership in Pharmacology (USA) in 1988 and was conferred Churchill Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust in 1995. He has held Visiting Professorships at the Institute of Pharmacognosy & Pharmacy, University of Vienna, Austria (2004); at Institute of Medicinal Plant Development, Beijing, China, (1998-present); at the Key Laboratory of Marine & Natural Products Analysis, Qingdao, China (2005 to present); at Shenyang Pharmaceutical University, Shenyang, China (1992-2005); at School of Biological, Environmental, & Health Studies, Middlesex University, UK (1996-2000); at British College of Acupuncture, London, UK (1994-1997). Professor Chan has served as a professional & expert advisor on many governmental agencies in Hong Kong, Abu Dhabi UAE & the UK, as former Committee Member in the Department of Health in Herbal Medicines in the UAE, former Pharmacy & Poisons Board Member, former Executive Member of the Society for the Aid & Rehabilitation of Drug Abusers, former Technical Committee Member of the Vocational Training Council of the HK Government, Panel Member of the Research Grant Council, International Advisory Board Member for the Department of Health in HK Chinese Materia Medica Standards in Hong Kong, Member of the Expert Advisory Group of Herbal & Complementary Medicine for the British Pharmacopoeia Commission under Medicine and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency in the UK. He has over 480 publications, including the co-authorship and editorship of 3 drug monographs, 3 specialist books in Chinese Medicine, 180 peer reviewed full papers, 268 peer reviewed conference presentations, 12 articles and 25 book chapter articles in the areas of Biomedical & Pharmaceutical Analysis, Clinical Pharmacology & Pharmacokinetics, Drug-herb Interactions, and R & D, Clinical Trials and Quality Control of Herbal Medicinal Products. He is an Editor of the e-Journal of Complementary & Integrative Medicine and is on the editorial boards of several international journals.
Articles
Preclinical characterization of intestinal absorption and metabolism of promising anti-Alzheimer’s dimer bis(7)-tacrine, International Journal of Pharmaceutics (2008)
The present study aims to investigate the preclinical intestinal absorption of bis(7)-tacrine (B7T) using different...
Astragalus Saponins Induce Growth Inhibition and Apoptosis in Human Colon Cancer Cells and Tumor Xenograft, Carcinogenesis (2007)
Astragalus memebranaceus is used as immunomodulating agent in treating immunodeficiency diseases and to alleviate the...
Development of a high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass method for determination of bis(7)-tactrine, a promising anti-Alzheimer's dimer, in rat blood, Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis (2007)
An analytical method using on-line high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with electrospray ionization was...
Signaling pathway of ginsenoside-Rg1 leading to nitric oxide production in endothelial cells, Federation of European Biochemical Societies Letters (2006)
We here provide definitive evidence that ginsenoside- Rg1, the pharmacologically active component of ginseng, is...
Simultaneous Qualitative and Quantitative Analyses of the Major Constituents in the Rhizome of Ligusticum Chuanxiong Using HPLC-DAD-MS, Chemical & Pharmaceutical Bulletin (2006)
An HPLC-DAD-MS method was developed for the qualitative and quantitative analysis of the major constituents...