KARACHI – The International Traditional Medicine Clinical Trial Registry, China, has appointed Dr. Raza Shah, the Senior Professor at the International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences (ICCBS), the University of Karachi, as an expert in its advisory committee.
According to the ICCBS, University of Karachi spokesman, the advisory committee comprises many other international experts from the World Health Organization, Germany, Austria, Brazil, Malaysia, and China.
The purpose of the expert committee is to advise the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS) and the China Centre for Evidence-Based Traditional Chinese Medicine for the strategic development of the ITMCTR, Review major challenges and opportunities in global clinical trials (research) registration in the field of traditional medicine, and provide strategic advice on priority issues about traditional medicine research registration in this area.
The ICCBS, University of Karachi Director, Prof. Dr. Farzana Shaheen congratulated Prof. Raza Shah for his achievement.
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Karachi, Prof. Dr. Khalid Mehmood Iraqi, Prof. Dr. Atta-ur Rahman, Professor Emeritus and former Federal Minister for Science and Technology, and Prof. Dr. M. Iqbal Choudhary, the Coordinator-General OIC-COMSTECH, and UNESCO CHAIR on Medicinal and Bio-Organic Natural Product Chemistry ICCBS, also congratulated Prof. Raza Shah for his achievement.
