
Lixin Wei
Male, Ph.D, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor
Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology, CAS
E-mail: lxwei@nwipb.cas.cn
Correspondence Address: 23# Xinning Road, Xining 810008, Qinghai, China
Research Areas
Tibetan Medicine Pharmacology and Toxicology
Education
INSTITUTION AND LOCATION | DEGREE (if applicable) | MM/YY | FIELD OF STUDY |
China Agricultural University (CAU), Beijing | B.S. | 07/91 | Microbiology |
Graduate University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing | Ph.D. | 08/01 | Biochemistry |
Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tianjin | Postdoctor | 09/13 | Toxicology |
Experience
Work Experience
1991-1994 Research Assistant, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xining, China
1994-1998 Research Associate, NWIPB, CAS, Xining, China
1998-2009 Associate Professor, NWIPB, CAS, Xining, China
2009- Professor, NWIPB, CAS, Xining, China
2011- Doctoral supervisor, NWIPB, CAS, Xining, China
2009- 2014 Deputy Director, Research Center of Traditional Tibetan Medicine, NWIPB, CAS, Xining, China
2009- Director, Key Laboratry of Tibetan Pharmacology and Safety Evaluation of Qinghai Province, Xining, China
2012- Chief Scientist, Tibetan Medicine Modernization -- Heavy Metal Safety Evaluation Technology Subject Group, NWIPB, CAS, Xining, China
2014- Deputy Director, Northwest Institute of Plateau Biology (NWIPB), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Xining, China
Other Experience and Professional Memberships
2007-2010 Member, Ninth Chinese Pharmacopoeia Commission
2007- Excutive director, China Ethnic Medicine Association
2010- Deputy, Tenth Chinese Pharmacopoeia Committee
2011- Excutive director, Chinese Association of Minority Medicine
2011- Excutive director, Natural therapy research committee, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Society (WFCMS)
2011- Editorial board member, China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
2012- Editorial board member, Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Materia Medica --World Science and Technology
2014 Presiding chairman, the 493rd Xiangshan Science Conferences
Publications
Papers
- Lv P, Wei LX*, Du YZ, Yang HX, Peng M. Hepatoprotective and toxic characteristics of the whole herb of traditional Tibetan folk medicine Swertia mussotii Franch. Journal of Medicinal Plants Research. 2010, 4(8): 706-709.
Li C, Yang HX, Wei LX*, Du YZ, Zhang GY. Determination of Total Mercury and Ionic Mercury in Artificial Gastric Juice of Tibetan Medicine Dangzuo by GAE-AFS. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis. 2011, 31(7): 1950-1953.
Jia J, Li YL, Zhao XH, Xiao YC, Chen GC, You JM, Wei LX. Separation and Purification of Three Xanthones from Swertia Mussotti Franch by High Speed Counter-Current Chromatography. Chinese Journal of Analytical Chemistry. 2011, 39(4): 584-587.
Li C, Lengben CR, Sang L, Gongbu DZ, Du YZ, Wei LX*. The Chemical and Structural Analysis of Tibetan Medicine Fanshi. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis. 2012, 32(1): 248-251.
Li C, Sang L, Lengben CR, Xia ZJ, Du YZ, Wei LX*. The Chemical and Structural Analysis of Tibetan Medicine Zhuxi. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis. 2012, 32(6): 1671-1673.
Ni WH, Gao TT, Wang HL, Du YZ, Li JY, Li C, Wei LX*, Bi HT. Anti-fatigue activity of polysaccharides from the fruits of four Tibetan plateau indigenous medicinal plants. Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 2013, 150, 529-535.
Yang HX, Ma F, Du YZ, Sun SQ, Wei LX*. Study on the Tibetan medicine Swertia mussotii franch and its extracts by fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Spectroscopy and Spectral Analysis, 2014, 31(11): 2973-2977.
Wu DM, Gao TT, Yang HX, Du YZ, Li C, Wei LX. Zhou TY, Lu JM, Bi HT. Simultaneous microwave / ultrasonic -assisted enzymatic extraction ofantioxidant ingredients from Nitraria tangutorun Bobr. juiceby-products. Industrial Crops and Products. 2015, 66: 229-238.
Li C, Wang DP, Duo J, Duojie LD, Chen XM, Du YZ, Yang HX, Zheng ZY, Yu MJ, Wei LX*. Study on safety of Tibetan medicine Zuotai and preliminary study on clinical safety of its compound Dangzuo. China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica. 2014, 39(13):2573-2582.
Li C, Wei LX. Safety Evaluation of Tibetan Medicine Zuotai in Mice. SOT 2014 Meeting Abstract: 2223.
Research Interests
To investigate the toxicity and efficacy relationship as well as harmful interactions for traditional Tibetan medicine in China.
Research Support
Ongoing Research Support
81374063 Wei Lixin (PI) 01/01/14-12/31/17
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Chemical Valence , Coordination Form and Molecular Mechanism of Hg in Tibetan Medicine Zuotai in Intestinal Transmembrane Absorption.
This project is to provide new ideas and methods for elucidating the safety and efficacy of heavy metals in traditional medicines from the prospective of chemical valence, chemical speciation and dynamic.
Role: PI
Y25410 Wei Lixin (PI) 01/01/12-12/31/15
Major Breakthroughs Programs, ‘One-Two-Three’ Strategic Planning, NWIPB, CAS
Tibetan MedicineModernization: SafetyEvaluation Technology of Heavy Metals
This project is to overcome the safety evaluation technical bottleneck of Tibetan medicine containing heavy metals, and to construct the original safety evaluation technology system of traditional ethnic drug containing heavy metals.
Role: PI
Completed Research Support
2012BAI27B00 Wei Lixin (PI) 01/01/12-12/31/14
National Key Technology Support Program
Ethnic medical treatment curative effect evaluation and platform technology research
This project was to establish the curative effect evaluation, safety evaluation and quality control technologies system of ethnic medical therapy and traditional national drug.
Role: PI
2012BAI27B05 Wei Lixin (PI) 01/01/12-12/31/14
National Key Technology Support Program
Key techniques research on safety evaluation of ethnomedicine processed products containing heavy metals and their compound preparations
This project was carried out to do clinical safety evaluation of classical prescription preparations containing heavy metals in Tibetan and Mongolian medicine.
Role: PI
81274194 Wei Lixin (PI) 01/01/13-12/31/13
Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
Converted Species and Transmembrance Absorption Mechanism of Mercuric Sulfide of Traditional Tibetan Medicine Zuotai in Gastrointestine.
This project was to reveal the mechanism of conversion and absorption of HgS in Zuotai in gastrointestine, with a new prospective to recognize the safety of traditional medicine containing heavy metals.
Role: PI
Students
已指导学生
吕坪 02 19174
靳有才 02 19174
邹小艳 02 19174
韩青 02 19174
王萍萍 02 19174
陈现民 02 19174
王东平 02 19174
夏振江 02 19174
杨红霞 02 19174
李岑 02 19174
朱洪梅 02 20517
张国英 02 20517
全正香 02 20517
姜建锋 02 19175
杨红霞 01 19174
李林帅 02 20517
于明杰 02 20517
李岑 01 19174
郑植元 02 67200
李梦园 01 19174
赵静 02 67200
现指导学生
陈海娟 01 19174
张明 01 19174
耿卢婧 01 19174
谭巧珠 02 67200
肖远灿 01 19174
夏政华 01 19174
Honors & Distinctions
2011 Contribution Award for Kuangcheng Wong Education Fund Program, Hong Kong
2011 Merit Scholar of ‘The Dawn of West China’ Talent Training Program, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS),China
2013 The State Council special government allowance winner, China
2014 First prize of Qinghai Province Science and Technology Progress Award, China