Haruki Yamada PhD
Haruki Yamada is the Director and a Professor at the Kitasato Institute for
Life Sciences, and the Dean of the Graduate School of Infection Control
Science, Kitasato University in Japan. He is also the Director of the research
division of the Oriental Medicine Research Center at Kitasato University,
and involved with the Scientific Advisory Board of Drugs for Neglected
Diseases initiative (NDDi). He was former director of WHO Collaborating
Center for Traditional Medicine at the Kitasato Institute. Professor Yamada
received the Li-Fu Academic Award for Chinese Medicine in 1999 and an
Academic Award of Medical and Pharmaceutical Society for WAKAN-YAKU
(Traditional Medicine) in 2004. He is well known in the field of the scientific
elucidation of Kampo medicines, and the bioactive polysaccharides from
medicinal herbs.
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