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Home > Author Index > HUNG, N. V HUNG, N. VDr. Nguyen Van Hung is Deputy Director of the Institute of Chemistry and Director of Bioorganic Division, Vietnamese Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He is a phytochemist with special expertise in the isolation, structure elucidation, and synthesis of medicinally important compounds, such as the antimalarial drug artemisinin. Early in 2006, he and his chemistry team at the Institute of Chemistry successfully isolated shikimic acid from the starting raw material Chinese star anise fruit, Illicium verum Hook. f. (Illiciaceae), and using this molecule as a precursor, they successfully synthesized the drug oseltamivir (Tamiflu). Since 1998, he has served as a Co-Project Leader in chemistry of an International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) program with responsibility in the isolation and structure elucidation of biologically active compounds.
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