Dr. Merlin Willcox
Clinical Lecturer & Researcher, University of Southampton & General Practitioner
Keynote Speech: CHAT-COPD Overview of a Chinese Medicine Research Project, Jointly Funded by China and the UK government (co-hosted with Dr. Xiao-Yang Hu)
(7th October ’23)
Key topics
– Detailing the process of arranging a collaborative project between two governments
– Discussing what it takes to successfully execute a research project from an academic standpoint
Dr. Merlin Willcox is a clinical lecturer and researcher at the University of Southampton. His research interests include primary health care for disadvantaged populations, traditional medicine, and clinical trials of herbal medicine.
He qualified in medicine from the University of Oxford in 1998 and completed training as a General Practitioner in 2004. Since then he has combined clinical work as a GP with research. He has been involved in several clinical trials of herbal medicines for malaria and helped to set up a network of people involved in this field called “RITAM” (Research Initiative on Traditional Antimalarial Methods).
In his speech CHAT- COPD Overview of a Chinese Medicine Research Project, Jointly Funded by China and the UK government, Dr. Merlin Willcox and Dr. Xiao-Yang Hu will be discussing the seminal UK-China collaborative project that they helped coordinate. An invaluable opportunity for the academically-inclined to peer behind the curtain with an illuminating 45 minute talk.