XueqingYU GuangzhouChina

Prof. Yu Xueqing holds academic positions including President of Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology, Past president of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, Editor-in-Chief of Kidney Diseases, Editor board member of American Journal Kidney Diseases and Kidney International, subject editor of Nephrology. He undertakes 60 scientific research funds. He is the winner of 9 prizes including 1 second prize National Sci-Tech Advance Award, 1 Sci-Tech Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, and 1 first prize of the Natural Science of Guangdong province. He has authored more than 500 scientific papers, among which 200 were indexed by SCI, including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Metabolism, Science Translational Medicine, etc. He has published 17 academic monographs, including 8 chief editors. Prof. Yu is also Changjiang Scholarship professor of Ministry of Education, winner of National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He established a Peritoneal Dialysis Center with world leading patient survival and technical survival rates, The prestigious academic journal Lancet describes him as “a driving force in Chinese nephrology”.