Ethnopharmacology and Drug Discovery for Covid-19: Anti-Sars-Cov-2 Agents from Herbal Medicines and Natural Products

Jen-Tsung Chen is a professor of cell biology at the National University of Kaohsiung in Taiwan. He also teaches genomics, proteomics, plant physiology, and plant biotechnology. Dr. Chen's research interests include bioactive compounds, chromatography techniques, plant molecular biology, plant biotechnology, bioinformatics, and systems pharmacology. He is an active editor of academic books and journals to advance the exploration of multidisciplinary knowledge involving plant physiology, plant biotechnology, nanotechnology, ethnopharmacology, and systems biology. He serves as an editorial board member in reputed journals, including Plant Methods, GM Crops & Food, Plant Nano Biology, Biomolecules, International Journal of Molecular Sciences, and a guest editor in Frontiers in Plant Science, Frontiers in Pharmacology, Journal of Fungi, Current Pharmaceutical Design. Dr. Chen published books in collaboration with Springer Nature, CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group and he is handling book projects for some more international publishers on topics of drug discovery, nanotechnology, bioengineering, plant functional genomics, and CRISPR-based plant genome editing.

陳建宗教授是台灣高雄國立大學的細胞生物學教授。他還教授基因組學、蛋白質組學、植物生理學和植物生物技術。陳博士的研究興趣包括生物活性化合物、色譜技術、植物分子生物學、植物生物技術、生物資訊學和系統藥理學。他積極擔任學術書籍和期刊的編輯，以促進涉及植物生理學、植物生物技術、納米技術、民族藥理學和系統生物學的多學科知識探索。他是多本知名期刊的編輯委員會成員，包括《Plant Methods》、《GM Crops & Food》、《Plant Nano Biology》、《Biomolecules》、《International Journal of Molecular Sciences》，並擔任《Frontiers in Plant Science》、《Frontiers in Pharmacology》、《Journal of Fungi》、《Current Pharmaceutical Design》的客座編輯。陳博士與Springer Nature、CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group合作出版書籍，並正在為一些國際出版社處理有關藥物發現、納米技術、生物工程、植物功能基因組學和基於CRISPR的植物基因組編輯的書籍項目。