This Honours Project will focus on the following 4 research fields: (1) identification of crude drugs and Chinese Patent drugs; taxonomy of medicinal plants; (2) natural products chemistry and quality assessment of Chinese materia medica; (3) research and development of new products from Chinese medicines; pharmaceutics of Chinese medicines; (4) pharmacology and toxicology of Chinese medicines; and (5) intellectual property and administration of proprietary Chinese medicines.

Under the supervision of a teaching staff (Principal Supervisor or Co-supervisor) of the School of Chinese Medicine, each final year student will carry out an independent research topic belonging to one of the above fields. During the period of the Honours Project, the students will conduct literature searching and review, lab procedure design, experimental operation and handling, data analysis and interpretation, and summarization of the research results. At the end of the projects, the students are required to deliver an oral presentation and write a thesis.