2026 Nature Partnership Event

Where Tradition Meets Innovation: Global Collaboration in Standardisation and Translational Research around Traditional Chinese Medicine

Norberto Peporine Lopes, Elected Member of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the American Chemical Society; Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry; full professor at Full Professor at the Ribeirão Preto School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Topic: From Brazilian medicinal plants to traditional Chinese medicine: high-resolution mass spectrometry for linking chemical composition, efficacy and toxicity

Muhammad Iqbal Choudhary, Coordinator General of OIC-COMSTECH (Ministerial Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation); Distinguished National Professor of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry and Senior Honorary Advisor at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (H. E. J. Research Institute of Chemistry and Dr. Panjwani Center for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research); Vice President (Central & South Asia) The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS), Pakistan

Topic: Chemistry and pharmacology of traditional medicine

Thomas Efferth, Member of Academia Europea and the World Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (London); Chair of the Department of Pharmaceutical Biology, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences of Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany

Topic: From herbal wisdom to AI-driven precision medicine: reprogramming disease through systems pharmacology

José Faro, Co-Founder, co-director and administrator of Lisbon School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (ESMTC); representative of the TCM profession in the Consulting Board for non-conventional medicines of the Portuguese Ministry of Health (TM/CAM); Expert Advisor of Traditional and Complementary Medicine of the World Health Organization (WHO), Portugal

Topic: Diagnostic standardization as a translational interface in traditional Chinese medicine: bridging clinical practice, research and global standards

Yao He, Director of the Macao Translational Medicine Centre; Vice President/Chair Professor/Doctoral Supervisor of Macau University of Science and Technology (MUST); Deputy Director of the State Key Laboratory of Mechanism and Quality of Chinese Medicine; Recipient of The National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars; the Leading Talent of the National High-Level Talent Special Support Program, China

Topic: Macao Translational Medicine Center (MTMC) and cross-regional collaboration: establishing an ‘AI + traditional Chinese herbs + translational medicine’ international platform