Hunan University of Chinese Medicine (HUCM) has established the Academician Professor Atta-ur-Rahman One Belt and One Road TCM Research Center at its main campus at Changsha, the capital city of Hunan province in China.

The inaugural ceremony for the research center was conducted on October 24, 2019, along with Annual Bio-TCM International Conference at HUCM. Dr. Wei Wang, Professor at Hunan University of Chinese Medicine, stated on behalf of the university.

"The University recognizes the contributions of Prof. Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman in the field of traditional medicine. This center is indeed a humble recognition of Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman's tremendous scientific contributions in the field of traditional medicine, and his leadership of developing scientific collaboration between the two countries."

Prof. Atta-ur-Rahman has a longstanding association with Bentham Science as the Editor in Chief of Current Medicinal Chemistry, a leading journal in the field of medicinal chemistry.

Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman, FRS , is the Editor for Current Medicinal Chemistry. Dr. Rahman won the UNESCO Science Prize and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society (London). He was conferred honorary doctorate degrees by many universities including Cambridge University. He was elected Honorary Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge University, and the Austrian government honoured him with its high civil award (“Grosse Goldene Ehrenzeischen am Bande") (2007) .He is Foreign Fellow (“Academician”) of Chinese and Korean Academy of Sciences.

Current Medicinal Chemistry (Impact factor 3.46), is one of the inaugural publications of Bentham Science Publishers. Now in its 26th volume, the journal continues to publish frontier reviews in the field, enabling researchers to stay at the forefront of pharmaceutical design, discovery and synthesis. More information about the journal can be found here.