Raymond Cooper
Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
Biography
Dr Ray Cooper was born in the UK, received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry and after 15 years in R&D in the pharmaceutical industry, he moved to the dietary supplements industry. He developed new Chinese botanicals as supplements including Cholestin, Cordymax and Te-Green.
Currently Ray is visiting professor and lecturer at the HK Polytechnic University and co-founder of PhytoScience LLC, a consulting company creating innovative botanical solutions and products.
He is the recipient of the 2014 American. Society Pharmacognosy Tyler Prize for his life time contributions to Botanical Research. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Chemical Society, UK.
Ray has recently published three books: Natural Products Chemistry: Sources, Separations and Structures (CRC PRESS) and Botanical Miracles, Plants that Changed the World, and Chinese and Botanical Medicines. He has edited 5 books, most recently, Botanical Medicine: from Bench to Bedside and published over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles.
Abstract
Abstract : Discovering Ancient Wheat Varieties as Functional Foods