Congratulate Professor HUANG Yu, Head of the Department of Biomedical Sciences (BMS), on his election to the position of Fellow within the prestigious International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS) Academy of Physiology.

The IUPS Fellowship honours researchers who have made “extraordinary contributions to the advancement of physiology, in the form of original discoveries, sustained excellent contributions to science, or who have otherwise rendered outstanding service to physiology”. Professor Huang is one of 27 Fellows elected in 2023.

Professor Huang is the Chair Professor of Biomedical Sciences and Vascular Biology and the Jeanie Hu Professor of Biomedical Sciences at CityU. He obtained his BSc from Fudan University Shanghai Medical College and PhD from the University of Cambridge. He is the Vice-President of both The Chinese Association of Physiological Sciences and The Chinese Section of the International Society of Heart Research. He is also an elected Fellow of the International Society for Heart Research and has received both the Inaugural Hong Kong Research Grants Council Senior Research Fellowship and the Croucher Senior Research Fellowship. He is currently the Associate Editor of Circulation Research of the American Heart Association.

Professor Huang has made outstanding contributions to vascular biology research for many years and is devoted to advancing the growth of cardiovascular research. His research team focuses on elucidating the molecular events for initiating and progressing endothelial cell dysfunction in hypertension, obesity, diabetes and atherosclerosis. The aim is to uncover novel biomarkers for vascular pathogenesis and use animal models to develop novel approaches to reversing vascular dysfunction in cardio-metabolic disorders.

Established in 2021, the IUPS Academy of Physiology elects not more than 30 new Fellows every year to publicize the important contributions of physiologists to science and health around the world.