Hu Kanghong

Hu Kang Hong, German nationality; doctor of molecular virology of Universität Düsseldorf; doctor, postdoctoral research and senior scientist of Universität Düsseldorf, Universität Freiburg and Universität Regensburg; special-term professor of our university; and national key laboratory doctoral student tutor and researcher (PI) of Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV), Chinese Academy of Sciences. In 2014, he became the director of the Sino-German Biomedical Center of Hubei University of Technology. In 2012, he was listed in the second batch of One Hundred Experts Plan. Prof. Hu dedicates himself to the researches of virus replication mechanisms and regenerative medicine, and has several breakthroughs in HBV molecular biology and liver fibrosis research. He first characterized the role of nuclear factor Y in zinc finger protein 267-matrix metalloproteinase-10 signal pathway activation of liver fibrosis trans-differentiation, which provided a new drug target for reversal of liver fibrosis. A German research team led by him first created second-generation three dimensional perfusion cell culture system based on artificial interstitium, which has been widely used in stem cell mediated regeneration of renal tubule, liver, cartilage, cornea and other tissues, and has won many awards around the world. Since returning to China, Prof. Hu has undertaken national “11th Five-Year Plan” and “12th Five-year Plan” key infectious disease research projects, avant-garde research projects of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and several other projects of national natural science funds, and has published more than 70 papers on Biomaterials, Nuc Acids Res and other famous international journals.