TCM find new Avenue to international market

时间：2007-06-25 06:12:04

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Beijing, June 24 - China's military medical academy announced on Friday that it would licence a British company to use the patent of its new anti-dementia drug based on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), opening up a new avenue to the international market for TCM products.

 

After ten years of efforts, a group led by Ma Baiping of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS) of the People's Liberation Army has finished pre-clinical research for its new anti-dementia drug, dubbed1 NJS, which is derived2 from TCM substances.

 

Under the deal, the academy will sell the patent licence to U.K.-based Phytopharm plc, disclose key NJS technologies, and rely on the pharmaceutical3 firm to do clinical trials and promote the product in the international market.

 

"This is the first time China has sold a TCM patent licence to a foreign firm and it represents a major stride toward international credibility," said AMMS President Sun Jianzhong.

 

The deal gives TCM a better chance of penetrating4 the international market, he added.

 

Phytopharm chief executive officer Dr. Daryl Rees said that western countries have some negative perceptions of TCM. Many TCM drugs contain ingredients that can not be identified by western pharmaceutical standards, making them still very hard to get market entry approval as new herbal drugs.

 

They have a very different concept on TCM products' being safe, effective and controllable, Ma said.

 

　　"Foreign firms can adopt a global approach in clinic research of NJS as well as its market strategy, helping5 find a new way for TCM to enter the international market," said Ma.

Linking up with an overseas company that can carry out clinical research and market promotion6 will help boost the credibility of TCM in the international market, Rees said.

 

Pre-clinical results were very "exciting", he said, and he had an optimistic forecast for the new medicine.

 

When it began laboratory research, the AMMS patented NJS both in China and in its potential markets such as Europe, Japan, the Republic of Korea and the United States.

 

"China's TCM manufacturers are now more aware of patent protection," Sun said.

 

Both sides declined to disclose the value of the deal.

 

Dementia is a condition characterized by a progressive decline of mental abilities -- including loss of memory -- accompanied by changes in personality and behavior. Alzheimer's disease is the most common form of dementia.

 

With ageing populations swelling7 worldwide, the potential for a holistic8 new dementia treatment is enormous.

 
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  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
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  • He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 pharmaceutical f30zR     
adj.药学的，药物的；药用的，药剂师的
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  • She has donated money to establish a pharmaceutical laboratory.她捐款成立了一个药剂实验室。
  • We are engaged in a legal tussle with a large pharmaceutical company.我们正同一家大制药公司闹法律纠纷。
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5 helping 2rGzDc     
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的
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  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
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adj.从整体着眼的，全面的
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  • There is a fundamental ambiguity in the use of word "whole" in recent holistic literature.在近代的整体主义著作中，“整体”这个词的用法极其含混。
  • In so far as historicism is technological,its approach is not piecemeal,but "holistic".仅就历史决定论是一种技术而论，它的方法不是渐进的，而是“整体主义的”。

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