Yu Huang#
| Membership Number: | 7260 |
| Membership type: | FOREIGN |
| Section: | BASIC AND CLINICAL TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2025 |
| Main Country of Residence: | CHINA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cityu.edu.hk/bms/profile/yuhuang.htm |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-1277-6784 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2021 - present Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vascular Biology and Head of Department of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China
- 2022 - present Jeanie Hu Professor of Biomedical Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, China
- 2021 - present Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- 2021 - present Emeritus Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
- 2010 - 2021 Chair Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), China
- 2016 - 2020 Associate Director (Research), School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK, China
- 2007 - 2021 Director (Basic Sciences), Institute of Vascular Medicine, CUHK, China
- 2006 - 2013 Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong
- 2001 - 2010 Professor, Department of Physiology, CUHK, China
- 1997 - 2001 Associate Professor, Department of Physiology, CUHK, China
- 1993 - 1997 Assistant Professor, Department of Physiology, CUHK, China
Fields of Scholarship
- Identification of biomarkers for cardio-metabolic diseases
- Mechanobiology and in channels
- Endothelium-derived contracting factors
- Vascular benefit of physical exercise
- Pathophysiology of atherosclerosis
- Shear stress and endothelial function regulation
- Perivascular adipose tissues in vascular tone regulation
- Endothelium and smooth muscle function
- Endothelial cell dysfunction in diabetes and hypertension
- Vascular biology
Honours and Awards
- 2025 Outstanding Research Award, City University of Hong Kong, China
- 2024 First-class Award, The Natural Science Award, Hubei Province, China
- 2024 Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Society for Heart Research
- 2024 The Paul M Vanhoutte Memorial Lecture at 9th Scientific Meeting of Asian Society for Vascular Biology, China
- 2023 Elected Fellow, British Pharmacological Society
- 2023 Elected Fellow, Academy of Physiology, International Union of Physiological Sciences
- 2023 Keynote Lecture at 19th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology – WCP2023, Glasgow, Scotland
- 2021 Inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Award
- 2021 Outstanding Contribution Award, Chinese Society for Vascular Medicine, Chinese Association of Pathophysiology
- 2020 Wuxi PharmaTech Life Science and Chemistry Award – The Scholar Award
- Since July 2019 Associate Editor for Circulation Research, American Heart Association
- 2019 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (first-class award), Ministry of Education, China
- 2018 Elected Fellow of the International Society of Heart Research
- 2019 UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Macau
- 2018 The 9th Asian Lecture on Vascular Biology at 8th Scientific Meeting of Asian Society for Vascular Biology, China
- 2017 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (second-class award), Ministry of Education, China
- 2015 Second-class Award, The State Natural Science Award, China
- 2024 Croucher Senior Research Fellow Award, Hong Kong Croucher Foundation
- 2013 The Robert F. Furchgott Lecture at the MOVD 2013 (11th International Symposium on Mechanisms of Vasodilatation), Zurich, Switzerland
- 2012 - 2015 Visiting Professorship under Academic Icon Program, University of Malaya
- 2011 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (second-class award), Ministry of Education, China
- 2007 The Office of Life Sciences Distinguished Lecture at National University of Singapore
