简介
Yu Huang is the Jeanie Hu Professor of Biomedical Sciences. He is concurrently the Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vascular Biology and the Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences at City University of Hong Kong (CityUHK). He obtained his BSc from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College and PhD from University of Cambridge. Before joining CityUHK in late September 2021, he was the A3 Professor of Biomedical Sciences and the founding Director (Basic Sciences) of Heart and Vascular Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Prof. Huang has been elected as a foreign member of Academia Europaea (The Academy of Europe) in April 2025. He was the past President of Asian Society for Vascular Biology (2010–2018) and the past Vice-President for Chinese Society for Vascular Medicine (2015–2021). He is currently the Vice-President for the Chinese Section of International Society for Heart Research (2016–) and the Vice-President for Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences (2022-). He is the elected Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research (2019), Fellow of International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Academy of Physiology (2023) and Fellow of British Pharmacological Society (2023). He received the inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council – Senior Research Fellow Award.
Prof. Huang serves as the Grant Review Panel Member for Hong Kong Research Grants Council, Hong Kong Government’s Health and Medical Research Fund, Natural Science Foundation of China, and The University of Macau Multi-Year Research Grant. He has so far served (past and present) as the editor, guest editor, associate editor, and editorial board member for 18 SCI-indexed journals including Circulation Research (associate editor). He has reviewed grant proposals for 35 granting agencies of 14 countries and regions. He is also the visiting or guest professor of 12 universities and institutes.
The research focus of Huang’s team is to elucidate cellular and molecular events in initiation and progression of endothelial cell dysfunction in hypertension, obesity, and diabetes, to uncover novel biomarkers for vascular pathogenesis, and to develop venues to reverse vascular dysfunction in animal models of cardio-metabolic disorders. He has co-authored 551 peer-reviewed publications in SCI-indexed journals including Nature, Science, Cell Metabolism, Circulation Research, European Heart Journal, PNAS, Diabetes, Hypertension, ATVB, Stroke with >40550 Google scholar citations (h-index of 104).
Prof. Huang received 2025 John Vane Medal from British Pharmacological Society, 2024-2025 Outstanding Research Award from City University of Hong Kong, 2024 Peter Harris Distinguished Scientists Award from International Society for heart Research, 2020 Wuxi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award – The Scholar Award (2020年度藥明康德生命化學研究獎學者獎), Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (first-class award in 2019, 2019年度高等學校科學研究优秀成果獎 – 自然科學一等獎, second-class awards in 2017 and 2012), 2017及2012年度高等學校科學研究优秀成果獎 – 自然科學二等獎, Ministry of Education, China, The State Natural Science Award (second-class award in 2015, 2015年度國家自然科學獎二等獎), China; The Croucher Award – Croucher Senior Research Fellowship in 2014. He was also the recipient of the Paul M Vanhoutte Memorial Lecture (2024), the Bei Shi Zhang Lecture (2023), University of Science and Technology of China; The Keynote Lecture at 19th World Congress of International Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (WCP2023); The Asian Lecture on Vascular Biology, Shanghai (2018); The Robert F. Furchgott Lecture, Zurich (2013); and The Office of Life Sciences Distinguished Lecture, National University of Singapore, Singapore (2007).
