Wenfu Ma

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, School of Life Sciences

Wenfu Ma received his PhD degree in 2011 from the Institute of Biomedical Research at Fudan University in Shanghai, China. After completing his PhD, he moved to the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States for postdoctoral training from 2011 to 2018. In 2018, Ma joined the School of Life Sciences at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, where he is currently based. His research interests focus on two main areas: (1) Mechanistic investigation of how Chinese medicine compounds are metabolized by enzymes in the human gut microbiota. (2) Structural and functional studies of drug-target discovery, particularly among traditional Chinese medicine compounds. 

Mingrui Yang

School of Life Science, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 102488, China

Dr. Yang received her Ph.D degree from Wuhan University, during which she also had the opportunity to undergo joint training at the Institute of Biophysics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Since 2016, she has been a lecturer at Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Her current research mainly focuses on the pathogenic mechanisms of respiratory viruses such as influenza virus and coronavirus, as well as the role of traditional Chinese medicine in their prevention and treatment. Dr. Yang has chaired and participated in a number of scientific research projects of various levels, and published research papers in journals such as Nature Communications, Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, Journal of General Virology, and Viruses, either as the first author or co-first author.

Yue Zhang

School of Life Science, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

Yue Zhang serves as a lecturer in the School of Life Sciences, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing, China, where he is responsible for instructing undergraduate students in courses like Bioengineering. He earned his Ph.D. in pharmaceutics from Beijing University of Chinese Medicine. Dr. Zhang's research is primarily focused on the development of immune analytical methods for natural products. His work has been published in multiple international journals, including JNAN and JOVE (JOVE-57116 and JOVE-62754).

Cuiyan Ma

Beijing University of Chinese Medicine

I got my PhD degree in biology from Peking University, and completed my post-Doc training at at Tsinghua University focusing on computational biology driven drug discovery. Currently, I is a research lecture at BUCM, and I have extensive experience in both experimental and computational biology. As a Postdoctoral Researcher in Bioinformatics at Tsinghua University, I leveraged advanced data analysis techniques to gain deeper insights into biological systems. Currently, I am a Research Scientist at the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, where I am investigating the anti-inflammatory mechanisms of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) based on pattern recognition receptors. By integrating cutting-edge experimental and computational methods, I aim to elucidate the molecular pathways underlying the therapeutic effects of TCM and bridge the gap between traditional Chinese medicine and modern biomedical science. My publication includes a Cell Research paper (2017).