Yu HUANG, Ph.D. (Cantab.), MAE, FISHR, FIUPS, FBPhS

Jeanie Hu Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vascular Biology
Head, Department of Biomedical Sciences (29 September 2021-)
City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

黃聿 博士(劍橋大學)

胡梁子慧生物醫學教授
生物醫學及血管生物學講座教授, 香港城市大學生物醫學系主任

Foreign Member, The Academia Europaea (Academy of Europe)
歐洲科學院外籍院士
https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Huang_Yu

Inaugural Research Grants Council - Senior Research Fellow
香港研究資助局首屆高級研究學者, 2021
https://awards.ugc.edu.hk/awardees/yu-huang-2020

Croucher Senior Research Fellow
裘槎基金會裘槎優秀科研者獎, 2014
https://croucher.org.hk/senior-research-fellow-yu-huang

Fellow, International Union of Physiological Sciences Academy of Physiology
國際生理科學聯合會生理學院會士
https://www.iups.org/physiology/iups-academy-of-physiology/

Fellow, International Society for Heart Research
國際心臟研究學會會士
https://ishrworld.org/page/Fellows

Fellow, British Pharmacological Society
英國藥理學會會士
https://www.bps.ac.uk/news/articles/2023/2023-fellows-and-honorary-fellows

Associate Editor, Circulation Research, American Heart Association
美國心臟協會《循環研究》副主編
https://www.ahajournals.org/res/editors

1/F, To Yuen Building, 31 To Yuen St, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Tel: 852 34427746; Fax: 852 34420549
Email: yu.huang@cityu.edu.hk
Website: http://www.cityu.edu.hk/bms/profile/yuhuang.htm

ORCID: 0000-0002-1277-6784
ResearcherID: K-2866-2017
Scopus ID: 57020209200
Google Scholar: Yu HUANG

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Emeritus Professor, School of Biomedical Sciences
Chinese University of Hong Kong (28 Sept 2021 -)

Adjunct Professor, School of Life Sciences, CUHK (28 Sept 2021 -)

Professor of Biomedical Sciences (1 August 2010 – 27 Sept 2021)
School of Biomedical Sciences, CUHK

Member for the Council of The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2015-2021)
香港中文大學校董會成員(校董, 2015-2021)

Fellow of The United College Assembly, CUHK (2003-2022)
香港中文大學聯合書院院務委員(2003-2022)

Senior College Tutor, The United College, CUHK (2022-)
香港中文大學聯合書院資深書院導師 (2022-)

Director (Basic Sciences), Heart and Vascular Institute, CUHK (2007 – 2021)
香港中文大學心腦血管醫學研究所所長(2007-2021)

Professor (by courtesy), School of Life Sciences, CUHK (2009-2021)
Professor (by courtesy), The Hong Kong Institute of Diabetes and Obesity, CUHK (2014-2021)

E-mail: yu-huang@cuhk.edu.hk

• Shanghai First Medical College, CHINA (Fudan University Shanghai Medical College since 2002), Degree awarded (1983): Bachelor of Science

• Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK, Degree awarded (1985): Master of Philosophy

• Department of Pharmacology, University of Cambridge, UK, Degree awarded (1988): Doctor of Philosophy

• American Heart Association Post-doctoral Research Fellow Vermont-affiliated, 1988-1991), Department of Pharmacology, University of Vermont, USA

• Post-doctoral Research Physiologist (1991-1993), Department of Physiology, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

• Endothelial and Metabolic Dysfunction, and Novel Biomarkers in Diabetes, Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Estrogen Deficiency

• Endothelium-derived Contracting Factors in the Regulation of Vascular Tone

• Adipose Tissue Regulation of Vascular Function in Obesity, Diabetes and Hypertension

• Ischemic Stroke and Neuronal Damage

• Pharmacological Characterization of New Anti-diabetic and Anti-hypertensive Drugs. Hypotensive and antioxidant Actions of Biologically Active Components of Traditional Chinese Herbs and Natural Plants including Polypehnols and Ginsenosides

• Foreign Member, Academia Europaea/Academy of Europe (Basic and Clinical Translational Sciences Section) (April 2025)

Fellowships

• Elected Fellow, British Pharmacological Society (October 2023)

• Elected Fellow, Academy of Physiology, International Union of Physiological Sciences (April 2023)

• Elected Fellow of the International Society of Heart Research (ishr, 2019)

• Inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council (RGC) Senior Research Fellow Award (2020 - 2021年度首屆香港研究資助局高級研究學者獎)

• Croucher Senior Research Fellowship Award (2014), Hong Kong Croucher Foundation (裘槎優秀科研者獎, 2014, 香港裘槎基金會)

Major Awards and Honors

• 2025 Vane Medal, British Pharmacological Society (2025)

• Outstanding Research Award 2024, City University of Hong Kong (May 2025)

• First-class Award, The Natural Science Award, Hubei Province (中國湖北省2017年度科學技術獎 - 自然科學獎一等獎, September 2024)

• 2024 Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award of the International Society for Heart Research (April 2024)

• Outstanding Contribution Award, Chinese Society for Vascular Medicine, Chinese Association of Pathophysiology (病理生理學會血管醫學專業委員會傑出貢獻獎), 3 July 2021

• 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)

• 2019 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (first-class award), Ministry of Education, People Republic of China (國家教育部2019年度高等學校科學研究优秀成果獎 - 自然科學一等獎)

• 2017 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (second-class award), Ministry of Education, People Republic of China (國家教育部2017年度高等學校科學研究优秀成果獎 - 自然科學二等獎,2018)

• Research Excellence Award 2016-2017, Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大學研究卓越獎, 2017)

• Second-class Award, The State Natural Science Award, China (中國國家自然科學獎二等獎,2015)

• First-class Award, The Natural Science Award, Chongqing Municipality Government (中國重慶市科學技術獎 - 自然科學獎一等獎) (April 2013)

• Research Excellence Award 2011-2012, Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大學研究卓越獎, 2012)

• 2011 Higher Education Outstanding Scientific Research Output Award (second-class award), Ministry of Education, People Republic of China (2011年度高等學校科學研究优秀成果獎 - 自然科學二等獎,2012)

• The Postgraduate Research Output Award 2011, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Mentor of the awardee, Xiaoyu Tian)

• The Postgraduate Research Output Award 2009, Chinese University of Hong Kong (Mentor of the awardee, Siu Ling Wong)

• UM Macao Distinguished Visiting Scholar, University of Macau (2019)

• Visiting Professorship under Academic Icon Program, University of Malaya (2012-2016)

Service to Major Scientific Organizations

• The International Council Member, International Society of Heart Research (2025-)

• Honorary President of The Asian Society for Vascular Biology (2025-2027)

• Scientific Committee Member, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease (中國醫學科學院阜外醫院)（心血管疾病全國重點實驗室第一屆學術委員會委員，March 2025 -）

• Vice-President, Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (中國生理學會副理事長, 5 Nov 2022)

• Vice-President, The Chinese Section, International Society of Heart Research (國際心臟研究會中國分會副主席, 2016-)

• Vice Chairman of the Academic Committee for The Key Laboratory of Geriatric Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease Research, Ministry of Education of China (老年心腦血管病教育部重點實驗室學術委員會副主任, January 2024),

• Vice Chairman of Academic Committee for Institute of Endocrine and Metabolic Disease, University of Science and Technology of China and  Anhui Provincial Key Laboratory of Metabolic Health and Panvascular Diseases (中國科學技術大學內分泌与代謝病研究所, 代謝建康与渙血管病安徽省重點實驗室學術委員會副主任 (August 2023)

• Vice-President, Society of Vascular Medicine, Chinese Association of Pathophysiology (中國病理生理學會心血醫學專業委員會副主任委員, 2015-2021)

• President, Asian Society for Vascular Biology (2010-2018)

• Secretary-General and the founding member of the Asian Society for Vascular Biology (2005-2010)

• Council Member, the Asian Society for Vascular Biology (2018-)

• Elected voting member (representing Asia) of the five-member Membership Committee, the International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (IUPHAR) (2006-2018)

• Member of the Scientific Committee, State Key Laboratory of Cardiovascular Disease (心血管疾病國家重點實驗室學術委員會委員, April 2022 - March 2025)

• Member of the Committee of Experts on National Center for Cardiovascular Diseases (中國國家心血管專家委員會第二屆委員會委, Sept 2019 - Sept 2024 )

• Elected Executive Council Member of the Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (Nov 2022-)

• Council Member, The Chinese Association of Pathophysiology (中國病理生理學會理事,2010-)

• Elected Council Member, The Chinese Society of Cardiovascular Pathophysiology (中國病理生理學會心血管專業委員會理事, 2008 -)

• Council Member, Society of Vascular Medicine, Chinese Association of Pathophysiology (中國病理生理學會心血醫學專業委員會理事, 2015-)

• Council Member of the Chinese Section, the International Society of Heart Research (國際心臟研究會中國分會理事, 2008-)

• Council Member of The International Society for Heart Research – Chinese Committee of Translational Medicine (ISHR-CCTM) (2014-2016)

• Executive Council Member of The International Society for Heart Research – Chinese Committee of Translational Medicine (ISHR-CCTM) (國際心臟研究會中國轉化醫學工作委員會常務理事, 2016-)

• Executive Council Member, The Chinese Society of Cardiovascular Pharmacology (中國藥理學會心血管專業委員會常務理事, 2007-)

• Council Member, The Chinese Society of Circulatory Physiology, Chinese Association for Physiological Sciences (中國生理學會循?生理專業委員會理事2015 - 2018)

• Executive Council Member, Cardiovascular Immunology Sub-Committee, Chinese Society for Immunology (中國免疫學會心血管免疫分會常務理事, June 2024-2028)

• Executive Council Member, 2nd Board of Specialty Committee of TCM Pharmacology, World Federation of Chinese Medicine Societies (世界中醫藥學會聯合會中藥藥理專業委員會常務理事Jan 2014 - 2018)

• Member of Public Affair Committee, The Academy of Cardiovascular Research Excellence, USA (2003 -)

• 第三屆海峽兩岸醫藥衛生交流協會心血管專業委員會常務委員 (2021 – 2024)

• Executive Council Member (2000 - 2001) and Treasurer (2001 - 2008), Hong Kong Society of Neurosciences

• Executive Committee Member (2003-), Honorary Secretary (2006 - 2008), and Treasurer (2009-2012), Hong Kong Pharmacology Society

• Hong Kong Representative for Cardiovascular Conference across the Strait (2008 -)

• Vice-President, Hong Kong Society of Cell Biology (2018 -)

• Council Member, Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Hong Kong (2008 -)

• Vice-President, Institute of Cardiovascular Science and Medicine, Hong Kong (2023-)

• Founding Director (Basic Sciences) of the Institute of Vascular Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong (2007 - 2021)

• Assistant Dean (Research), Faculty of Medicine, Chinese University of Hong Kong (2006 - July 2013)

• Secretary (Internal Affair, 2011-2013), Vice-President (External Affair, 2013-2015, 2015-2017, 2017-2020), Council Member (2021-2023) for The Society of Hong Kong Scholars

Major Lectures

• Keynote Lecture at 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Academy of Cardiovascular Research Excellency Canada and 9th Canada-China symposium in Atherosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 7-9 July 2025

• Keynote Lecture at the 8th Asia-Pacific CardioMetabolic Syndrome Congress (APCMS), Seoul, Korea, 23-24 May 2025

• The Paul M Vanhoutte Memorial Lecture at the 9th Scientific Meeting of the Asian Society for Vascular Biology, Nanjing, China, 30 November 2024

• Keynote Lecture at the 7th Asia-Pacific CardioMetabolic Syndrome Congress (APCMS), Seoul, Korea, 26 April 2024

• 2024 Peter Harris Distinguished Scientist Award Lecture, ISHR Chinese Section Scientific Meeting, Wuxi, China, 12 April 2024

• Keynote Lecture at 8th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering and Applications (ICBEA 2024), Tokyo, Japan, 19 March 2024

• Bei Shi Zhang Lecture (貝時璋講座) in University of Science and Technology of China 18 August 2023

• Keynote Lecture at 2023 Scientific Conference of Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology, Malaysia, 7 August 2023

• Keynote Lecture at 19th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology – WCP2023, Glasgow, Scotland, (04 July 2023)

• The President’s Lecture, City University of Hong Kong, 2 November 2022

• The 9th Asian Lecture on Vascular Biology at 8th Scientific Meeting of Asian Society for Vascular Biology, Shanghai, China, 3 November 2018

• The Robert F. Furchgott Lecture at the MOVD 2013 (11th International Symposium on Mechanisms of Vasodilatation), Zurich, Switzerland (4th October 2013)

• The Office of Life Sciences Distinguished Lecture at National University of Singapore (26 April 2007)

Service to Major Funding Agencies

• Member of Biology Panel for Research Assessment Exercise 2026, The University Grants Committee (UGC) of Hong Kong (2024)

• Member of the Biology and Medicine Panel of the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong (December 2017 - 2023)

• Member of the Grant Review Board, Health and Medical Research Fund, Food and Health Bureau, Hong Kong SAR Government (2013-)

• Member of Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), Hong Kong Government’s Innovation and Technology Commission (2023-)

• Member of Review Panel of Major Research Program on Regulation of Vascular Homeostasis and Remodeling”, Natural Science Foundation of China (2014-)

• Panel Member of University of Macau Multi-Year Research Grant in Engineering and Science, University of Macau (2013-2020)

• Chair of the Panel on Biomedical Sciences, the Multi-Year Research Grant, University of Macau (2021-)

• Member of the Academic Committee of the Hong Kong Scholar Program, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (香江學者計劃, 2011 -) 

Visiting and Adjunct Professorships

• Lecture Professorship, Fudan University Shanghai Medical College (2005 – 2008; 2008 – 2011, 2011-); Adjunct Professorship, Xi’an Jiaotong University Medical Centre (2005 - 2009); Lecture Professorship, Center of Medical Sciences, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital (2006); Guest Professorship, Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical College (2007); Member of Scientific Committee, Shanghai City Vascular Biology Key Laboratory (2007); Member of Academic Committee, Shanghai City Key Laboratory of Hypertension (2014); Guest Professor, Jinan University (2008); Guest Professorship, Peking University, School of Basic Medical Sciences (2010); Guest Professorship, Third Military Medical University (2010-); Distinguished Professorship, Beijing Institute of Heart, Lung and Blood Vessel Diseases (2017); Member of Academic Committee, Center for Obesity and Metabolic Disease at Peking University, China (2010); Member of Academic Committee of Advanced Institute of Medical Sciences, Dalian Medical University (2015); University of Science and Technology of China (2023) 

External Assessor / Panel Member of Talent Programs

• External Assessor of The Chang Jiang Scholars Program, The Ministry of Education and Li Ka Shing Foundation, China (教育部長江學者講座教授, 特聘教授,成就獎評審專家)

• 中央組織部人才工作局青年拔尖人才支援計畫評審專家

• 中國青年千人計劃通信評審專家庫專家

• 中國國家科技獎勵評審專家(2015年度國家自然科學獎會評專家,生物學組)

• 國家自然科學基金委員會醫學科學部科學國家杰出青年基金

• 國家自然科學基金委員會醫學科學部科學國家優秀青年基金

Review Service and Lectures

• Regular reviewer of manuscripts for 260 international journals and of abstracts for 14 international conferences

• Regular reviewer of grant proposals for 37 granting agencies and schemes of 15 countries and regions

• 504 invited lectures and seminars at international, regional and local conferences on vascular research

Service to SCI-indexed Scientific Journals

• Associate Editor, Experimental Physiology (London, 2002 - 2003)

• Editor, Experimental Physiology (London, 2003 - 2006)

• Editor (Vascular), Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology (Australia, 2007 - 2012)

• Editor, Drug Discoveries & Therapeutics (Japan, 2008 -)

• Editor, Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's Archives of Pharmacology (Europe, 2012 - 2019)

• Reviewer Editor, Frontiers in Pharmacotherapy of Inflammation (Switzerland, 2010-), Frontiers in Cardiovascular and Smooth Muscle Pharmacology (Switzerland, 2010-); Frontier in Vascular Physiology (Switzerland, 2010-); Frontiers in Ethnopharmacology (Switzerland, 2013 -)

• Academic Editor, PLoS One (2011-2019, USA)

• Associate Editor (Cardiovascular), Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology (2014 -  2018)

• Co-Guest Editor for Journal of Cardiovascular Pharmacology (USA, 2014-2015)

• Co-Guest Editor for British Journal of Pharmacology (UK, 2016-2017)

• Editor for British Journal of Pharmacology (UK, 2018 -)

• Associate Editor, Circulation Research (American Heart Association, USA, 2019-)

• Co-Guest Editor for Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (USA, 2021-2022)

• Co-Guest Editor for Antioxidants (2021-2022)

• Member of Editorial Advisory Board (past and present) for SCI-indexed journals Journal of Vascular Research, Europe (2007 - 2018); Cardiovascular Drug & Therapy, Europe (2011-); The Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology (UK, 2011-); Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis and Vascular Biology (USA, 2012-); Acta Pharmacologica Sinica (China, 2012-); Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases & Diagnosis (USA, 2013-); Clinical and Experimental Research in Cardiology (USA, 2014-); Scientific Reports (UK, 2014-2019); Biomedical Research (2016-); British Journal of Pharmacology (UK, 2018-); Cardiovascular Research (Europe, 2018-); Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology (USA, 2018-)

Chairman, Organizing or Scientific Committee of international and regional conferences

• Satellite Symposium to the World Congress of the International Society for Heart Research (Hong Kong, 2004), International Symposium on Mechanisms of Vasodilatation (Belgium, 2005), 11th International Symposium on Vascular Neuroeffector Mechanisms – the Official Satellite Symposium of the 15th World Congress of Pharmacology (main organizer, China, 2006), Scientific Meetings of Asian Society for Vascular Biology (China, 2005 & 2006, Singapore 2008, Hong Kong China 2010, Xi’an China 2012, Hualien Taiwan, China 2016, Shanghai, China 2018), and Satellite Symposium to the World Congress of the International Society for the Heart Research and to the International Society of Hypertension (China, 2006); International Symposium on Basic Cardiology at The South China International Congress of Cardiology (China, 2006-), 9th and 10th International Symposium on Resistance Arteries (ISRA, Hamilton Island, Australia, 2008; Denmark 2011); 10th International Symposium on Mechanism of Vasodilatation (MOVD 2009, Sendai, Japan 2009); The 12th International Symposium on “Vascular Neuroeffector Mechanisms” (Odense, Denmark, 24-26 June 2010); Paul M Vanhoutte Research Symposium (November 2010); Endothelium-derived Hyperpolarizing Factor (EDHF) 2012 (Paris, France, 2012); 11th International Symposium on Mechanism of Vasodilatation (MOVD 2013, Zurich, Switzerland 2013); Joint Scientific Meetings of Asian Society for Vascular Biology and  the 12th International Symposium on “Vascular Neuroeffector Mechanisms” (Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, 2014); The Symposium on “Natural Product: Neuro-Metabolic-Vascular Mechanisms” at 17th World Congress of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology (Cape Town, South Africa, 2014); 12th International Symposium on Mechanism of Vasodilatation (MOVD 2016, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA 2016); Canada-China Symposium – ATVB 2016, Calgary, Canada 2016); 2019 World Congress of International Society for Heart Research (Beijing, China, 2019);  13th International Symposium on Mechanism of Vasodilatation and 7th International Symposium on Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarization (Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2019); and 8th International Symposium on Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarization (Hong Kong SAR, China, 2021); 22nd International Vascular Biology Meeting (IVBM, Oakland, CA, USA, 2022); 2022 World Congress of International Society for Heart Research, Berlin, Germany, 2022), 15th International Symposium on Mechanism of Vasodilatation and 9th International Symposium on Endothelium-Dependent Hyperpolarization (Oxford, United Kingdom, 2024);