学术带头人：胡先明教授
胡先明教授：现任教授（1999.10－）、博导（2001.10－）、药学院院长(2001.5.－)。
研究兴趣主要集中在：(1)手性合成与手性拆分、手性分离分析技术；(2)药物合成化学、天然产物化学及其药剂学研究。
社会兼职：(1)中国化学会永久会员，湖北省化学化工学会理事；(2)中国药学会高级会员，湖北省药学会常务理事，武汉市医药行业协会副理事长。
1981年11月：获武汉大学化学系理学硕士学位；
1995年11月：在荷兰格罗宁根大学化学系获博士学位；
1996年2月：回国组建实验室，开展国内外合作研究，获得多项资助，正在从事若干研究项目。
代表性学术论文
1. 1 Yuling Xiao, Shucai Liang, Guofu Qiu, Xianming Hu. Preparation, characterization, and tabletting properties of two new pachyman-based pharmaceutical aids: I. disintegrants in dispersible tablets. Polymers for Advanced Technologies. 2007, 18, 1-7.
2. Feng Xichun, Qiu Guofu, Liang Shucai, Su Jiangtao, Teng Hanbing, Wu Lamei, Hu Xianming, aza-Payne rearrangement of N-Tosyl-α,α-disubstituted-aziridinemethanols and N-Boc-α, α-disubstituted -aziridine methanols, Tetrahedron: Asymmetry, 2006, 9(17), 1394-1401.
3. Xue Song Xu, Han Bing Teng, Guo Fu Qiu, Shu Cai Liang, Xian Ming Hu, A Facile Synthetic Route to L-Phosphinothricin, Chinese Chemical Letters, 2006, 17(2), 177-179.
4. Feng Xichun; Qiu Guofu, Liang Shucai, Hu Xianming, Synthesis of chiral and aminoalcohols via an α-aryl-aziridino methanol from 1-aryl-2-amino-1,3-propanediol, Russ.J. Org.Chem. 2006, 42(4), 496-500.
5. Hanbing Teng, Yunjiao He, Lamei Wu, Jiangtao Su, Xichun Feng, Guofu Qiu, Shucai Liang, Xianming Hu, A General and Facile Synthetic Approach to Na-Boc Ureidoalanine Derivatives, Synlett, 2006, 6, 877-880.
6. Su Jiangtao, Xiong Juan, Qiu Guofu, Liang Shucai, Feng Xichun, Teng Hanbing, Wu Lamei, Hu Xianming, Formation of the angular dihydrofuroquinoline alkaloids via cyclopropane opening in the presence of polyphosphoric acid, Synthetic Communications, 2006，36 (6), 693-699.
7. Kui Mei, Junbo Wang, Xiaocuang Wang, Xianming Hu, A practical and convenient synthesis of pyridylacrylonitriles via Heck Reaction, Synthetic Communications, 2006, 36(17), 2525-2532.
8. Zhigang Xiong, Qi Wei, Hanmei Chen, Shouwei Chen, Wenjin Xu, Guofu Qiu, Shucai Liang, Xianming Hu, Microbial Transformation of Androst-4-ene-3, 17-dione by Beauveria bassiana, Steroids, 2006, 71, 979-983.
9. Ben Hong Zhou, Xiao Jun Li, Min Liu, Zhenhua Wu, Xian Ming Hu, Antidepressant-like activity of the Gastrodia elata ethanol extract in mice, Fitoterapia, 77 (2006), 592-594.
10. Hanbing Teng, Haibin Wei, Guofu Qiu, Shucai Liang, Lamei Wu, Jiangtao Su, Xichun Feng, Xianming Hu, A Facile Way to Synthesize Nα-Boc-Nβ-Cbz-2, 3-Diaminopropionic Acid Derivatives via 5-Oxazolidinone, Synthetic Communications, 2006, 36(24), 3803-3807.
