Prof. Rudolf Bauer

Professor Rudolf Bauer is heading the TCM Research Center Graz together with Professor Litscher (Medical University of Graz). Besides Professor Rudolf Bauer is acting as a guest professor in several universities in China. He has long experience in natural product chemistry, analysis, and the bioassay-guided isolation of constituents from medicinal plants.

In 2010, he has been awarded with the Norman R. Farnsworth Excellence in Botanical Research Award of the American Botanical Council, and he is recipient of the Egon-Stahl-Award of the Society for Natural Product and Medicinal Plant Research (GA). He is former president of GA, founding president of the Good Practice in TCM Research Association, and Editor of Planta Medica. Prof Bauer has been active in the development methods for quality control of Chinese herbs for 20 years. As a member of two expert groups on herbal drugs of the European Pharmacopoeia Commission, Professor Rudolf Bauer is actively involved in the development of monographs for the European Pharmacopoeia.