An International Conference that Examines the Issues of Yesterday, the Challenges of Today, and the Opportunities for Tomorrow

Scientific Development of TCM to Address the Aging World

Emphasis As chronic diseases are hard to treat with western medicine while TCM is known to be quite effective in chronic diseases, efforts will be made to merge TCM into western medicine with scientific methods of development. The TCM to be developed includes both single compounds and multipharmacy.

Participating Institutions1. China Academy of TCM2. Beijing University COM3. Peking Union Medical College4. Nanjing Medical College of TCM5. China Pharmaceutical University6. Nanjing Medical University7. Zhongsan University Eye Center

An International Conference that Examines the Issues of Yesterday, the Challenges of Today, and the Opportunities for Tomorrow

Common Research ThemesTo develop TCM scientifically to treat age-related chronic diseases with the emphasis on following issues:

1. Safety and efficacy

2. Randomized, controlled, double marked

3. More than one center or one research group

4. Multiple timing of trials

5. Standardization

6.Quality Control

Scientific Development of TCM to Address the Aging World

An International Conference that Examines the Issues of Yesterday, the Challenges of Today, and the Opportunities for Tomorrow

Future Collaboration Programs

1. Osteoporosis

2. Eye Diseases

3. Neurodegeneration

4. Geriatric Psychiatry

5. International Center for Ophthalmic

Drugs from TCM (ICOT)

Scientific Development of TCM to Address the Aging World