Distinguished Professor
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Professor Liz Williamson was born in Halifax, UK. She completed her PhD in Pharmacognosy at the School of Pharmacy, University of London in 1977, and qualified as a pharmacist in 1978. She is a member of several UK Department of Health regulatory committees, including the British Pharmacopoeia (BP) Commission, and is Chair of the British Pharmacopoeia expert advisory group (EAG) on Herbal and Complementary Medicines and vice-chair of the EAG for Medicinal Chemicals. She was a member of the Medicines Commission until 2005 and the UK representative on the European Pharmacopoeia expert group for herbal drugs and essential oils until 2008.
Liz is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Phytotherapy Research and a member of the editorial board of Phytomedicine and the Chinese Journal of Integrative Medicine (Beijing). She is also a member of the Research Committee of ESCOP (European Scientific Cooperative on Phytotherapy), a member of the Phytochemical Society of Europe, a Fellow of the Linnaean Society of London and a visiting Professor to the School of Pharmacy, University of London. She has recently been appointed as Member of the Singapore International Expert Panel for Herbal Medicines.
Her research interests centre mainly on evaluating the quality and pharmacological effects of herbal medicines, in particular their synergistic effects and the potential for interactions with conventional medicines. She has published extensively in the area of herbal and natural products and spoken at many international conferences including the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, The British Association for the Advancement of Science, The Drug Information Association and ESCOP.
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