Liu Hongmei
Professor
Engineering
Huazhong University of Science and Technology
China
Biography
Liu Hongmei is a professor of bioinorganic chemistry at Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), Wuhan, China. Her main research areas are: (1) The biological functions of selenium and selenoproteins in the initiation and progression of vascular disease; (2) The synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials and biological application. She has published more than 20 papers in the leading scholarly journals in Bioinorganic Chemistry and one book “Selenium: Its Chemistry, Biochemistry and Application in Life Science”.
Research Interest
Bioinorganic Chemistry
Publications
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[3] Hongmei Liu*, Weixia Bian, Songxiu Liu, Kaixun Huang, Selenium protects bone marrow stromal cells against hydrogen peroxide-induced inhibition of osteoblastic differentiation by suppressing oxidative stress and ERK signaling pathway, Biological Trace Element Research, 150(1-3), 441-450, 2012