This 1-semester course aims to allow students to understand how herbal drugs modify biochemical, molecular and physiological processes in health and disease. It equips students with sufficient training in skills and techniques for pharmacological research, drug development and screening, and biomedical laboratory analysis. It makes particularly effective combinations with chemistry, pharmacology, pharmaceutical science, biochemistry, biomedical chemistry, microbiology, biological computing, forensic science and herbal medical sciences.
重點介紹常用中藥的現代藥理學研究進展及其與臨床應用的聯繫，同時了解中藥藥理研究的常用方法。