研究领域：

主要从事中医教学、临床及中药（复方）作用机理与药效物质基础研究。

荣誉与奖励：

中国药理学会肾脏药理专业委员会委员；2013年入选“江苏省六大人才高峰”。2017年3月获得国家留学基金委“青骨计划”项目资助赴澳大利亚昆士兰大学公派访学1年。目前已主持多项国家及省部级课题，包括：国家自然科学基金青年基金1项、江苏省六大高峰人才项目1项、江苏省临床医学科技专项1项、教育部博士点新教师基金1项、江苏省自然科学基金1项；参与国家科技支撑计划1项，国家及省自然科学基金多项。已发表学术论文20余篇，获发明专利证书2项。

论文与著作：

1.       GuolingYang#, Hui Ma#, Yanliang Wu, Baoping Zhou, Chunlei Zhang, Chengzhi Chai*,Zhengyu Cao*.Activation of TRPC6 channels contributes to (+)-conocarpan-induced apoptoticcell death in HK-2 cells. Food and Chemical Toxicology 129 (2019) 281–290.

2.       LifeiGu#, Yange Wang#, Guolin Yang, Akhtolkhyn Tilyek, Chunlei Zhang, Shaoheng Li,Boyang Yu, Chengzhi Chai*,Zhengyu Cao*.Ribes diacanthum Pall (RDP) ameliorates UUO-induced renal fibrosis via both canonicaland non-canonical TGF-β signaling pathways in miceJournal of Ethnopharmacology231 (2019) 302–310.

3.       Baoping Zhou#, Yange Wang#, Chunlei Zhang, Guolin Yang, Fan Zhang, Boyang Yu, Chengzhi Chai*,and Zhengyu Cao*.Ribemansides A and B, TRPC6 Inhibitors from Ribes manshuricum ThatSuppress TGF-β1-Induced Fibrogenesis in HK-2 Cells. J. Nat. Prod., ArticleASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.jnatprod.7b01037.

4.       LuYang#, Cheng-Zhi Chai#, Yan Yan,Ying-Dan Duan, Astrid Henz , Bo-Li Zhang, Anders Backlund*，and Bo-Yang Yu*.Spasmolytic Mechanism of Aqueous Licorice Extract on Oxytocin-Induced UterineContraction through Inhibiting the Phosphorylation of Heat Shock Protein 27.Molecules 2017, 22, 1392; doi:10.3390/molecules22091392.

5.       AkhtolkhynTilyek#, Chengzhi Chai#, Xiaoli Hou,Baoping Zhou, Chunlei Zhang, Zhengyu Cao*, Boyang Yu*. The protective effectsof Ribes diacanthum Pall on cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity in mice. Journalof Ethnopharmacology. 178(2016)297–306.

6.       LuYang#, Chengzhi Chai#, Xinyi Yue,Junping Kou, Zhengyu Cao*, Boyang Yu*. Ge-Gen Decoction attenuatesoxytocin-induced uterine contraction and writhing response: potentialapplication for primary dysmenorrhea therapy, Chin J Nat Med, 2016,14(2):0124-0132.

7.       LuYang, Zhengyu Cao, Boyang Yu*, ChengzhiChai. An In Vivo mice model of primary dysmenorrhea, Exp Anim, 2015, 64 (3),295-303.

8.       YanYan#, Chengzhi Chai#, Dawei Wang,Jie Wu, Honghe Xiao, Lixia Huo, Danni Zhu, Boyang Yu*. Simultaneousdetermination of puerarin, daidzin, daidzein,paeoniflorin, albiflorin,liquiritin and liquiritigenin in rat plasma andits application to apharmacokinetic study of Ge-Gen Decoction by a liquidchromatography–electrospray ionization-tandem massspectrometry, J PharmaceutBiomed, 95 (2014) 76-84.

9.    YanYan#, Chengzhi Chai#, Dawei Wang,Xinyi Yue, Danni Zhu*, Boyang Yu*, HPLC-DAD-Q-TOF-MS/MS analysis and HPLCquantitation of chemical constituents in traditional Chinese medicinal formulaGe-Gen Decoction, J Pharmaceut Biomed, 80 (2013) 92-202.

10.   柴程芝,余伯阳*.从治疗原发性痛经新用途的发现探讨经方葛根汤现代研究的新思路[J].中国中药杂志,2018,43(12):2460-2464.