Dr. Xiangchun Shen is the current dean of School of Pharmaceutic Science, Guizhou Medical University. He also serves as the vice-director of State Key Laboratory of Functions and Applications of Medicinal Plants. Dr. Shen’s research interests are in the cardiovascular pharmacology and chemicobiology of functional natural product. He is devotes to disclose the modern scientific essence of traditional usages of Traditional Chinese Medicine and folk herbs, as well as to find potential pharmaceutical lead compounds by collaborative work with pharmacological research groups. He has been engaged in the establishment of the innovative drug research platform by integrating target discovery and drug discovery form the natural medicinal resources. He has played a leading role in the development of novel drug candidates from Chinese medicine for therapeutic chronic heart failure and atherosclerosis. Dr. Shen has published more than 100 research articles in peer-review journals including internationally well-recognized journals in the fields of pharmacology and herbs, such as Phytomedicine, Journal of Ethnopharmacology, Antiviral Research, European Journal of Pharmacology. He also holds 5 domestic patents.