Dr. Shie-Ming Hwang, Ph.D., is the founder and president of Sage R&D, LLC. He specializes in the discovery and development of new drugs, with expertise in analytical research and development, and biotechnology. He has discovered, with others, a series of bioactive substances with antiviral, antibacterial, and immune modulation activities.
He holds eight U.S. patents and related international patents on pharmaceutical and nutritional compositions, applications, preparations, stabilization and delivery, and has seven publications and numerous presentations and seminars in this area.
Dr. Hwang received his B.S. degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C. in 1970. He came to the United States in 1972 for advanced studies and received his Ph.D. degree in physical chemistry in 1977 from Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
From 1977 to 1980, Dr. Hwang was a staff scientist at the WARF Institute. In 1980, he moved to Columbus, Ohio to work for Ross Laboratories, a division of Abbott Laboratories. He left Abbott Laboratories in June of 1996 and has headed Sage R&D since then.
As the head of Sage R&D, Inc. Dr. Hwang has focused on evidence-based research in oriental medicine. He has developed an antiviral formulation into an herbal product as HepC Herba™, and an antibacterial formulation into an herbal product as P-10 Herba™.
Dr. Hwang is also a Grandmaster of taiji chuan and kungfu including shaolin, praying mantis, baji, piqua, and baqua. He has practiced chinese martial arts for over 50 years and was the founder of the Chinese Martial Arts Center and the Chinese Martial and Cultural Arts Foundation with his senior students. He and his senior students have conducted two taiji chuan for rheumatoid arthritis studies with a medical intern and a rheumatologist in Rockford, Illinois in 1986 and 1987. Funding was provided by the University of Illinois Medical Services Plan Grant and the Chinese Martial and Cultural Arts Foundation. The results were published in the American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, 70(3), pp. 136-141, 1991.
Dr. Hwang also sponsored the First Midwest Tai-Chi Convention in 1990, in honor of the late Grandmaster Yennien Wang with his senior students and Grandmaster George Lin Hu of Houston, Texas.