Zhi-li Huang
Medicine
Tsinghua University
China
Biography
Dr. Zhi-Li Huang graduated from Wannan Medical College in 1985, and was awarded two Sasakawa Fellowships to receive his PhD from Ehime University of Japan in 1999. Thereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow for Japan Society for Promotion of Science, a senior research scientist and vice-head of Dept. of Molecular Behavioral Biology in the Osaka Bioscience Institute, Japan. In 2005, he became a Principal Investigator of Sleep Research Program, State Key Laboratory of Medical Neurobiology and Brain Science Institute, and Professor, Department of Pharmacology of Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University.
Research Interest
His research interest is the hypothalamic regulation of sleep-wake cycle with focus on the histaminergic system. He published a series of original and review papers in Nature Neuroscience, PNAS, J Neuroscience, Progress in Neurobiology, and so on. He serves as a reviewer for more than 10 international journals such as PNAS, J Neuroscience, J Neurochemistry and Neuropharmacology. Based on his contributions to basic sleep research, he received Japan Sleep Research Award in 2005 and the grant from China National Fundation for Distinguished Young Scientists in 2006.
