DIVISIONS
Administrative Offices: Office of General Affairs, Office of Communist Party Committee, Department of Personnel, Department of Financial Affairs, Department of Sciences and Education, Labor Union and Service Centre for Science and Technology Study.
Eleven Research Centers of:
(1) Theory and Herbal Literature: Literature Study, Herbal Textual Study, History, Science Popularization, Property Theories, Effectiveness, Contraindications of Compatibility of Chinese Materia Medica
(2) Quality Standards: Chemical Constituents relating to Pharmacological Effects, Quality Control and Evaluation, Quality Control Standards and Materials and New Drug of Chinese Materia Medica
(3) Pharmaceutical Forms: New Pharmaceutical Forms and Techniques, New Drug Delivery Systems, New Adjuvant Material Application and Traditional Pharmaceutical Forms of Chinese Materia Medica
(4) Processing: Processing Theories, Mechanism and Techniques and Quality Evaluation of Processed Pieces of Chinese Materia Medica
(5) Pharmacokinetics: Pharmacokinetics of Multi-ingredients, In-vivo Exposure Regulation of Active Ingredients, Material Analysis of In-vivo Micro-ingredients of Chinese Materia Medica
(6) Pharmacology: Blood Vessel Diseases, Viral Diseases and Biomechanopharmacology
(7) Safety Evaluation(GLP) : Toxicology Mechanism of Chinese Materia Medica, Safety Studies of Combination of Chinese Materia Medica and Synthetic Medicines, Toxic Chinese Materia Medica , Safety Evaluation and Commonly Used Techniques, Immunotoxicity and Toxicokinetic of Chinese Materia Medica
(8) Safety Research of Injectable Chinese Medicine: Safety Evaluation, Quality Control, Pharmaceutical Techniques and Effectiveness of Injectable Chinese Medicines, as well as Material Bases of Their Adverse Reactions
(9) Biotechnology: Bio-information, Systems Biology, Bioengineering, Molecular Identification of Chinese Medicinal Materials and their Genomics
(10) R & D: Development Study of New Drug and Functional Food of Chinese Materia Medica, as well as their Further Development
(11) Qinghaosu (artemisinin) : Resource Development of Artemisia annua(Qinghao), Pharmacological Activity Extension, Structure Modification, New Compound Preparations of Artemisinin and its Derivatives
National Engineering Laboratory of Quality Control Technology of Chinese Materia Medica : Quality Control Techniques, Chemical Reference Substance and Standard Comprehensive Evaluation of Chinese Materia Medica, as well as Detoxifying Technique for Elimination of Contained Toxic Materials
Three journals and five academic societies are attached to the institute:
Three Journals:
(1) China Journal of Chinese Materia Medica
(2) Chinese Journal of Experimental Traditional Medical Formulae
(3) Family and Traditional Chinese Medicine
Five academic societies:
(1) Chinese Society of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine- Professional Committee of Chinese Materia Medica
(2) Chinese Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine-- Professional Committee of Processing Study of Chinese Materia Medica
(3) Chinese Pharmaceutical Association--Professional Committee of Medicinal History
(4) China Association for Promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine—Professional Committee of Chemical Study of Chinese Materia Medica
(5) China Association for Promoting Traditional Chinese Medicine—Professional Committee of Pharmaceutical Study of Chinese Materia Medica