Abstract: | Diarra Boubacar is the first non-Chinese postdoctoral fellow in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The Malian was born into a fam-ily of doctors in 1964. With his passion for the complex and intriguing field of tra-ditional medicine, Boubacar pursued his master's degree at Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine, in Guangdong Province, south China, and doctoral de-gree in Chengdu University of TCM in Sichuan Province in southwest China, where he learned from masters. |