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FONG, H. H. SProfessor Harry Fong is a Professor Emeritus of Pharmacognosy and Associate Director, WHO Collaborating Centre on Traditional Medicine at the College of Pharmacy, the University of Illinois at Chicago, as well as Adjunct Professor at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia. He is an internationally known pharmacognosist/natural products chemist with more than 48 years of experience centering on the search for anti-tumor, cancer chemopreventive, antimalarial, anti-HIV, and anti-TB agents from plants and on quality-control standardization and clinical evaluation of herbal medicine/botanical-dietary supplements. His research has resulted in more than 255 research papers, a number of books, book chapters, and review articles. He was an Associate Editor of the Journal of Natural Products and was a primary writer of the WHO Monographs on Selected Medicinal Plants Vol. 1-4 and the WHO Guidelines on GACP. His work and services led to many honors. He served as President of the American Society of Pharmacognosy from 1978 to 1979, President of the Society for Economic Botany from 1981 to 1982, Visiting Professor at Guangzhou University of Traditional Chinese Medicine University, and Honorary Member of the American Society of Pharmacognosy beginning in 2004. He is a recipient of the Jack L. Beal Post-Baccalaureate Alumnae Award, the College of Pharmacy, Ohio State University; Member, WHO Traditional Medicine Expert Panel (1997 to present); and Member, International Advisory Board on Hong Kong Chinese Materia Medica Standards (2002 to present).
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