Dr. Shi Lin Chen is the Principal Investigator at the Chinese Institutes of Materia Medica and the director in the Traditional Medicine Cooperation Center of the World Health Organization. He worked as the director of the Institute of medicinal Plants of the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and was a visiting professor at both the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Tokyo Pharmaceutical University. Dr. Chen received professional training at the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Mclean Hospital of Harvard Medical School. He is now working as the director of National Engineering Laboratory of “Endangered medicinal Materials Breeding”, Chairman at the Chinese pharmaceutical Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine and natural Medicine, and a member of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Advisory group on the United States Pharmacopoeia.