STAFF
Qingming LUO, Ph.D
Cheung Kong Professor, SPIE Fellow
Founder & Director of CBMP
Professor Qingming Luo gained his Ph.D degree in Physical Electronics and Optoelectronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 1993, and became a faculty member at Department of Optoelectronic Engineering in HUST. He was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in University of Pennsylvania (1995-1997), and Visiting Researcher at Beckman Laser Institute and Medical Clinic in University of California, Irvine (2000).
Dr. Luo joined the College of Life Science and Technology (CLST) in HUST in January 1999, where he became the Deputy Dean (1999.1-2003.1) and the Dean (2003.1-2007.9). In March 1999, he was awarded as Cheung Kong Professor (Distinguished Professor appointed by Ministry of Education, MoE) for Biomedical Photonics, one of the first awardees in China. In 2000, he won National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He has founded and directs the Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of MoE (since 2000), and the Virtual Research Center for Biomedical Photonics of MoE (since 2001). He was also the first Director of Hubei Bioinformatics and Molecular Imaging Key Laboratory (2004-2006). He was elected as SPIE Fellow in 2007.
Dr. Luo was appointed as the Executive Deputy Director of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics (WNLO) in March 2007 and the Dean of College of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering in July 2007. In August 2007, he was appointed as the vice president of HUST by the Ministry of Education of China.
Dr. Luo's research interests have focused on Biomedical Photonics and Bioinformatics. He has systematically carried out the studies on optical molecular imaging and tissue optical imaging based on tissue structure and function. Collaborated with Dr. Britton Chance, he has invented the functional near-infrared spectroscopy brain imager in 1996. His group developed the methodology and applications of optical intrinsic signal imaging and laser speckle imaging on the high resolution imaging of cortical activities, and performed the optical molecular imaging studies in living cells and model animals. In the meantime, he exploited a series of fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) probes to dynamic monitoring the protease activity in living cells, invented a novel technique and method for fast fluorescence microscopy imaging, and established the fluorescence molecular diffusion optical tomography system for small animal in vivo imaging. He leads the project of cyrosection images segmentations and labeling of Virtual Chinese Human (VCH), constructed a new 3D anatomical structural datasets of VCH with the smallest voxel (0.1脳0.1脳0.2 mm3) in the world.
Dr. Luo has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and owns about 20 patents. As the conference chair, he has edited more than 10 international conference proceedings. He delivered about 20 invited talks at the international conferences and served as Executive Chair of Xiangshan Sciences Conference twice.
Dr. Luo is the Chairperson of Bio-Optics and Laser Medicine Committee of Chinese Optics Society. He serves as editorial boards of various international journals including Journal of Biomedical Optics, Experimental Biology and Medicine, and Current Analytical Chemistry. He serves as the managing editor for Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences since 2008.
Dr. Luo was awarded China National Award of Science and Technology for Young Scientists, Special National Prize for Excellence in Education, National Excellent Worker in Science and Technology, Innovation Award from overseas Chinese Federation, Education Award for young teachers by FOK YING TUNG education foundation, Expert with eminent contribution in Hubei Province, May 4th Youth Medal of Hubei Province, and Top ten Wuhan outstanding youth scientists, taking Government Special Allowance.
Shaoqun ZENG, Ph D
Cheung Kong professor of the Ministry of Education of China (2008)
Founder & Vice Director of CBMP
He is currently a professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST), the vice director of Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics, the director of the biomedical photonics division of Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics and the vice Dean of the College of Life Science and Technology of HUST.
Dr. Zeng received BS and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Electronics from Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 1990, and 1996, respectively. He was a visiting scholar in University of Pennsylvania during 10/1997-2/1998, and a visiting scientist in Yale University during 7/2002-6/2005. Dr. Zeng was elected as the excellent young teachers by the Ministry of Education in 2002, the New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education in 2006, and won National Science Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars in 2009. He is a member of SPIE, and the American Society for Neuroscience, a senior member of Electronics Society of China, a member of the Society of Optics of China. He is an editor of the journal Acta Laser Biology Sinica. He is also the president of the committee of the 5th to 7th International conference on Photonics and Imaging in Medicine and Biology (2006-2008 Wuhan, China), meanwhile, he serves as a member of the international program committee of the conference on BIOS-Optical Diagnostics & Sensing of SPIE Photonics West.
His research interests are on the femtosecond laser biomedical imaging, new methods in high resolution optical functional imaging of protein, biomedical modeling. His work on the femtosecond laser biomedical imaging was elected as one of the Optical Significant Achievements of China in 2007. He has published over 90 academic papers on the optical microscopic imaging, the new methods and instruments of protein functional imaging, including top journals in the field of optics, instruments and neurosciences.
Yuandi ZHAO, Ph.D
Professor
Yuan-Di Zhao, Ph.D., Professor, he received his BSc in chemistry from Wuhan University, P.R.China in 1994 and PhD of Science from the same university in 1999. Presently, he is a Professor in the Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, P. R. China. His current fields of interest are nanobiophotonics and nanobiosensor. He is the corresponding author and co-author of over 40 original research papers published in journals.
Bi-Feng LIU, Ph.D
HUST Distinguished Professor
Dr. Bifeng Liu is a chair professor of Huazhong University of Science and Technology. He received his Ph.D. degree in Analytical Chemistry from Wuhan University (China) in 1999 and continued his postdoctoral research in the College of Life Science. From 2001, he moved to Japan and worked with Prof. Terabe as a JSPS postdoctoral fellow. He joined Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) as a professor in 2003. He is now serving as Chair of the Department of Systems Biology. His research focuses on systems biology-oriented analytical science in the areas of micro-separation, microfluidics and molecular imaging. He is the author and co-author of over 40 original research papers and reviews published in international journals, and often give invited plenary or keynote speeches in international conferences. Dr. Liu currently is the editorial board member of several academic journals such as The Open Analytical Chemistry Journal, Journal of Computer Science & Systems Biology, Journal of Analytical Science etc.
Pengcheng LI, Ph.D
Professor
Pengcheng Li, Ph.D, Professor. B.S. Degree in Optoelectronics, M.S. Degree in Optical Engineering and Ph.D in Biomedical Engineering. Research field: Optical imaging techniques used for mapping the cortical activities with high spatial and temporal resolution: laser speckle imaging and spectroscopic imaging, the mechanisms underlying the neurovascular coupling and regulation in normal and disease brain. Active Grants:聽 National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (Grant No. 2007AA02Z303), National Nature Science Foundation of China (Principal Investigator, 30500115, 2006-2008): In vivo optical imaging of the cortical spreading depression induced by Endothelin-1. Publications: the period 2003-2008 has so far resulted in 44 research publications (23 journal papers, 21 proceeding papers). These publications appeared in the following journals: Optics Letters, Optics Express, Journal of Biomedical Optics, Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, Brain Research, Neuroscience Letters et al.
Dan ZHU, Ph.D
Professor
Dan Zhu, Ph. D., Professor. She received BS degree in Physics from Hubei University, China, in 1986, MS degree in Radio- electronics from Huazhong Normal University, China, in 1992, and Ph. D degree in Physical Electronics from Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China, 2001. She received postdoctoral training in the key laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology from 9/2001 to 6/2003. She was a visiting scientist for cooperation research in Saratov State University, Russia, 9-11/2005. She is a reviewer of international journals: Journal of Biomedical Optics, Optics & Lasers in Engineering, Chinese Optics Letters, Frontier of Optoelectronics in China, etc. More than seventy papers were published, in which more than 50 were indexed by SCI or EI. Her current research interests include tissue optics theory and techniques, optical diagnosis and therapy in skin.
Qiang LU, Ph.D
Professor
He received his BS degree in Control Engineering, MS and Ph.D. degrees in Physical Electronics from Huazhong University of Science & Technology in 1993, 1996, and 2001, respectively. From 8/2002 to 2/2003 he was a visiting scholar in Micro-optics center in Swinburne University of Technology. During 1/2005 to 8/2006, he is a visiting scientist in Imperial College London. His research interest is bioinformatics, including grid computing, digital life.
Zhihong ZHANG, Ph.D
Professor
Zhihong Zhang. Female, M.D., professor of the Department of Systems Biology, College of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology(HUST). Professor Zhang received her M.S. degree in Molecular Immunology from Tongji Medical University in 1999 and M.D. degree in Biomedical engineering from HUST in 2003. Her Ph.D thesis "Tumors Metabolic Imaging Using the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Fluorescent Molecular Beacon" was awarded as Outstanding Doctorate Dissertation Award of Hubei Province (8th). She joined Britton Chance Center for Biomedical Photonics in HUST since July 1999, meanwhile, worked with Dr. Britton Chance in the field of tumor metabolic imaging at University of Pennsylvania as visiting scholar form April 2002 to May 2003 and with Dr. Gang Zhang in the molecular optical imaging of tumor at Ontario Cancer Institute / university of Toronto as cooperative researcher during April 2007 to October 2007. Her current research focuses on dynamic optical molecular imaging of protein functions and tumor-associated molecular events, and multi-functional nanocarriers for tumor imaging and treatment. Dr. Zhang is the author or co-author of over 30 papers published in international journals (e.g. such as Angewandte Chemie International Edition, Small, Biosensors and Bioelectronics, BBA-Molecular cell research, Journal of Biomedical Optics). As project principal investigator, she has taken charge of a National Natural Science Foundation of China and a Hubei Province Natural Science Foundation. She also took part in the 973 and 863 projects as major participator. Dr. Zhang was awarded Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars of State Education Ministry, the New Century Excellent Talents in University by the Ministry of Education in 2008 and the first prize for Natural Science Award of Hubei Province (Second persons who complete the project).
Zhenli HUANG, Ph.D
Professor
Zhen-li Huang obtained his B. Sc. in Chemistry from Nankai University (Tianjin, China) in 1998 and his Ph. D. in Optics from Zhongshan University (Guangzhou, China) in 2003 (Prof. He-zhou Wang, supervisor). He pursued postdoctoral studies in biomedical spectroscopy and microscopic imaging applications of organic molecules at the University of Central Florida (Prof. Kevin D. Belfield, supervisor) from 2005-2007. In 2003, he was offered a lectureship in Biommphotonics.
Hui Gong
Professor
Founder of CBMP
Hui Gong, an associate professor in the Key Laboratory of Biomedical Photonics of Ministry of Education, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She received her B.S. in Infrared Technology from Xidian University (Xi鈥檃n, China) in 1986. She worked in Chongqing Optoelectronics Research Institute from 1986 to 1993. She has joined in the Department of Optoelectronic Engineering, Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China) in 1993. Her current research interests are near infrared brain imaging and cognitive neuroscience.
Yong Deng, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Yong DENG received her B.S in Precision Instrument from Sichuan University and M.S. in Mechanical Design Manufacturing and Automation and Ph. D in Biomedical Engineering from Huazhong University of Science & Technology. Her research field: The diffusive theory for optical tomography in tissues, the morphology and function imaging methods for small animals and developing novel instruments for biomedical applications. She has published over 30 papers including APL, OL, and OE journals.
Yu-Hui Zhang, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Yu-Hui Zhang, Doctor of Philosophy, an associate professor in Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology. She received her BS degree from Department of Chemistry, The University of Science and Technology of China in 1997. She obtained her Ph. D in organic chemistry from the University of Hong Kong in 2004, where she worked under the direction of Prof. Dan Yang. From Dec. 2004 to Aug. 2006, she worked as a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Prof. Suzanne Walker鈥檚 laboratory in Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School, USA. She has published papers on Journal of the American Chemical Society, The Journal of Organic Chemistry, Biochemistry, Chemistry&Biology, and ACS Chemical Biology. Her current research interest includes activity-based probes and functional proteomics.
Wei Zhow, Ph.D
Associate Professor
Wei Zhou graduated from Hubei University in 1995(BS degree), 1999(master degree in biochemistry and molecular biology) and joined BC-CBMP in 1999. He received his Ph. D. in Biomedical Engineering from Huazhong University of science and technology in 2007. In 2002-2003 he went to Min GU's Lab at Swinburne University as a visitor scholar and in 2003-2005 he studied in Shumin Duan's Lab in Institute of Neuroscience(ION) in Shanghai. He worked as a postdoctoral in Nedergaard鈥檒ab at University of Rochester from 2008. His research interest centers on mechanism of astrocytic calcium signaling and vesicle release in vivo by conbining 2-photon imaging with electrophysiology.