Jin-Feng Hu
Chair and Professor
Fudan University
China
Biography
Jin-Feng Hu, born in Hubei Province (1967), studied organic chemistry at Lanzhou University, where he obtained his B.Sc. (1990) and Ph.D. (1996) degrees in Natural Organic Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Zhong-Jian Jia. He was a postdoctoral fellow (1996-1998) in the Department of Natural Products Chemistry, Institute of Materia Medica (Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College), with Professor Xiao-Zhang Feng. He joined the Hans-Knoell-Institute for Natural Products Research as a German BMBF & DLR fellow (1998-2000) with Professors Susanne Grabley and Ralf Thiericke. He moved to the United States as a postdoctoral associate at the Department of Pharmacognosy, the University of Mississippi, with Professor Mark T. Hamann (2000–2001), and at the Genomics Institute of the Novartis Research Foundation and The Scripps Research Institute, with Professor Peter G. Schultz (2001-2002). He left his position as a Principal Scientist in Natural Products Chemistry from Sequoia Sciences, Inc. (U.S.A.), where he worked from 2002 to 2006, and since has been a Full Professor of Natural Products for Chemical Genetic Research at the Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics (Ministry of Education), East China Normal University. Most recently (2011), Dr. Hu joined the Faculty of the Pharmacy School at Fudan University and has been appointed as Chair of the Department of Natural Products Chemistry. His group is actively involved in the isolation, structure elucidation and synthetic optimization of bioactive natural products and chemical biology studies. He has authored over 80 scientific publications.
Research Interest
Natural Products Chemistry