Pierre Duez (Pharmacist, PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences) provides teaching activities in the fields of pharmacognosy (medicinal plants), phytochemistry, pharmacology, nutrition, and bibliography informatic tools. These lessons are taught in the first cycle of the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy (Bachelor cycle) to students of Medicine, Pharmacy and Biomedical Sciences. He also oversees various pharmacognosy research projects for students enrolled in doctoral and MA2 studies; a series of cooperation projects with developing countries (DR Congo, Burundi, Vietnam, Ecuador, …) emphasize the WHO strategy to integrate traditional medicines with mainstream medicine by investigating the conditions to master and regulate products, practices and practitioners. P. Duez has been the co-leader of a FP-7 EU project "Good Practice in Traditional Chinese Medicine Research in the Post-genomic Era", Grant agreement N°223154 (http://www.gp-tcm.org/). He is currently a member of the Traditional Chinese Medicines Working Party of the European Directorate for the Quality of Medicines & Healthcare (EDQM), Council of Europe, and of the Monograph and List Working Party of the European Medicines Agency (EMA-HMPC). He is the Vice-Rector for Mobility and International Relations at UMONS.