Journal of Obesity and Overweight

Dr. Yu Huang is presently working as an Professor of Biomedical Sciences in School of Biomedical Sciences at Chinese University of Hong Kong, China. He is the founding Director (Basic Sciences) of Institute of Vascular Medicine at Chinese University of Hong Kong and he is currently the President of Asian Society for Vascular Biology. He had received his B.Sc. degree from Fudan University Shanghai Medical School and PhD degree from University of Cambridge. His team has been actively exploring clinically-relevant research aiming to elucidate cellular and molecular events involved in the initiation and progression of endothelial cell dysfunction in hypertension, obesity, diabetes, estrogen deficiency and ageing, to uncover novel relevant biomarkers for vascular pathogenesis, and to develop venues to reverse vascular dysfunction in animal models of cardio-metabolic disorder, as well as to train top-quality research students. He has co-authored 335 peer-reviewed publications in SCI-indexed journals. He has so far served as the editor, associate editor, and editorial board member for 35 journals.