On 16 January, the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences (ICMS) of the University of Macau (UM) hosted the ‘University of Macau–Tsinghua University Joint Symposium on the Modernization of Chinese Medicine in the AI Era’ at UM. The symposium brought together scholars, faculty members, and students from UM and Tsinghua University to discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging computational approaches can support evidence building, standardisation, and translation of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM).
The event commenced with a welcome address by Prof. Xin Chen, Director of ICMS at UM. Subsequently, Prof. Shao Li, Academician and Director of the Institute of TCM-X at Tsinghua University, delivered the featured lecture titled “AI, network pharmacology and TCM.” Following this, featured presentations were delivered by Prof. Changsong Liu and Prof. Liting Wang from Tsinghua University, as well as Prof. Yuanjia Hu, Prof. Jiahong Lu, and Prof. He Song from UM. Their presentations covered frontier directions spanning AI, network pharmacology, biomedical informatics, neuropharmacology, regulatory sciences, and biocatalyst redesign, providing an interdisciplinary platform for academic exchange on the modernization of TCM.
This activity strengthened academic exchange between UM and Tsinghua University across AI, engineering, pharmacology, and TCM, and laid a foundation for future scientific collaboration and talent development in the modernization of Chinese medicine in the AI era.
Symposium speakers
Symposium participants