Du Yanhua

Biography

Du Yanhua Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Cardiac & Cerebral Vascular Research Center, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-Sen University. Dr. Du joined Sun Yat-Sen University to pursue her doctor’s degree in 2003 after she got her master’s degree at Xiang-Ya medical school, Zhongnan University. In January 2005, funded by “KAISI Scholarship” from Sun Yat-Sen University, Dr. Du was invited to join Dr. Alex Chen’s lab at Michigan state university in the United States to perform her research work as a co-cultivated PhD student and graduated at June 2007. Thereafter, she subsequently advanced her cardiovascular research training as a postdoctoral fellow in Michigan State University and University of Pittsburgh, respectively, from July 2007 to June 2009. During the period in USA, Dr. Du competed successfully for funding by two prestigious postdoctoral fellowships through the American Heart Association (2006-2008 and 2008-2009). In December 2008, build upon the exciting work she has done, Dr Du successfully applied the faculty position as an associate professor and master’s supervisor at the department of pharmacology, Sun Yat-Sen University as an imported excellent scientific researcher, and got the position of professor in January 2014, thereafter.She has obtained 2 grants from National Natural Science Foundation of China, and 3 grants from the Science Foundation of Guangdong Province. In 2010, her doctoral dissertation was awarded by “Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Guangdong Province” and also nominated by “National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of PR China”. In 2011, She was honored as “Excellent Young Teacher of Sun Yat-Sen University” and “Guangzhou Zhu-Jiang Science New Star”. In 2014, she was selected as a trainee of “Excellent Young Teacher Training Plan of Sun Yat-Sen University”.

Research Interest

Dr. Du’s research interests are focusing on endothelial function and vascular biology in diseased animal models such as hypertension and diabetes. The main academic contributions in the past years include: Demonstrate the protective effect of endothelium specific overexpression of GTPCH I，the rate-limiting enzyme of BH4, on endothelial dysfunction and vascular remodeling of resistance artery in DOCA-salt hypertension; Find that ClC-3 chloride channel is involved in basilar artery smooth muscle cells apoptosis induced by hydrogen peroxide through mitochondria dependent pathway; the cerebral vascular remodeling induced by hypertension can be prevented by ClC-3 knockout; ClC-3 contributes to the endothelial progenitor cells function in hypertension. So far, total 21 SCI-listed papers have been published in the field of cardiovascular research, including Circulation, Hypertension, Apoptosis, Cardiovascular Research