Biography

Yu HUANG obtained his B.Sc degree from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College, China in 1983. He was awarded with M.Phil (1985) and Ph.D (1988) from University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. Between 1988 and 1993, HUANG took up two postdoctoral research positions, the first as AHA Postdoctoral Fellow in the University of Vermont and then as the Postdoctoral Research Physiologist in the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined the Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1993 and is the Founding Director (Basic Science) for Institute of Vascular Medicine (2007) of Chinese University of Hong Kong. His recent focus on vascular pathophysiology of obesity, diabetes and hypertension has led to a better understanding of roles of arachidonic acid metabolites, BMP4, COX-2, oxidative stress associated with activated renin-angiotensin system in endothelial dysfunction and therapeutic interventions involving adipocytes. He has published extensively in journals such as Nature, Science, Cell Metabolism, Circulation Research, Stroke, Hypertension, Antioxidants & Redox Signaling, Diabetes, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, European Heart Journal, Cell Research, Cardiovascular Research, and Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (http://www.cuhk.edu.hk/proj/HuangLab/).