Dear All,

The following themes will be addressed at the meeting:

1.    Acupuncture

2.    Bioinformatics: "Omics" Approach and Data Analysis

3.    Clinical Investigation

§  Cancer, Liver Disease and Inflammation

§  Other Diseases and Safety

4.    Education

5.  Herbal Resources

§  Authentication

§  Cultivation and Herbal Quality

§  Identification, Formulation and Manufacturing

6.  Regulation and Interregional Collaborations in Academia, Government and Industry

7.  Natural Products

§  Biological Activity

§  Cancer, Virus and Inflammation

§  Identification, Bio-transformation and Metabolism

8.    Polychemical Activities and Mechanism Study

§  Cancer, Immunomodulation and Inflammation

§  Metabolic, Neural Diseases, Aging Process and Others

§  Metabolism, Drug Interaction and Toxicity

9.    Preventive Medicine

10.  TCM Diagnosis

The program-at-a-glance has been attached for your information.  You are cordially invited to join the meeting and encouraged to forward this message to your colleagues and friends who are interested in TCM for joining our upcoming 16^th CGCM Meeting.

Registration Fee

Registration for 16th CGCM Meeting is now open, please register and make the payment on or before July 15, 2017 (Saturday). Early bird discount will be provided for those who pay the fee on or before May 31, 2017 (Wednesday).  You can obtain the payment method on CGCM website http://cgcm.gdhtcm.com:1025.

Call for Abstracts

Abstract submission for poster presentations of the Meeting is now open for all CGCM members and invited guests.  Please submit your abstracts together with the attached Abstract Submission Form to centraloffice@tcmedicine.org on or before May 31, 2017 (Wednesday).

Highlights of the posters would be discussed during the relevant discussion sessions. Conclusions, action plans and milestones are expected to be drawn.

Travel Grant

To support postgraduates to attend the 16th CGCM Meeting, up to 50 Travel Grants are now open for application.  Awardees will receive travel grant, free accommodation (shared room) and waiver of registration fee.  You may wish to encourage your postgraduates to submit abstracts and apply for the Travel Grant.

* Students from the Guangzhou area are not entitle to apply the travel grant

** Depending on the cost of the airline ticket

New Institutional and Industrial Affiliate Membership

You are encouraged to take the initiative in inviting any potential institutions and companies, which are devoted to the research and development of herbal medicine, to join CGCM as Institutional or Industrial Affiliate Members.  You may wish to provide the relevant contact person and information for us.

Should you have any enquiries, please feel free to contact us at centraloffice@tcmedicine.org.

We look forward to welcoming you in Guangzhou!

With kind regards,

Yung-Chi Cheng

Chairman, CGCM

Lixing Lao, Ph.D., MB

Secretary General, CGCM

(Chinese version of the announcement)

各位中藥全球化聯盟成員:

第十六屆「中藥全球化聯盟」研討會將於2017年8月18-20日 (星期五至日) 在廣州白雲國際會議中心舉行，會議由廣東省中醫院承辦。會議將讓不同地區的學者、公司和單位人員交流大家在中醫藥的最新發展以及促進彼此間的合作。會議前一天(8月17日)將由國際傳統暨替代醫學協會(IATCM)舉行第三屆傳統暨替代醫學與健康國際學術會議(ICTCMH 2017)。

現誠邀各位參與第十六屆「中藥全球化聯盟」研討會並遞交論文摘要。隨附研討會的節目簡章及論文摘要表格。

**遞交論文截止日期: 2017年5月31日（星期三）**

請將填妥的論文摘要電郵至centraloffice@tcmedicine.org。

歡迎將此電郵轉寄至 貴校有興趣的老師和同學。有關研討會的更多詳情，將稍後於大會網頁(www.tcmedicine.org)公布。如有查詢，歡迎聯絡centraloffice@tcmedicine.org。

敬祝

台安

中藥全球化聯盟