Huji Xu PhD

Professor Huji Xu is a Professor of Medicine at Tsinghua University and Second Military Medical University (SMMU). He is the founder and Executive Dean of the School of Clinical Medicine at Tsinghua University and Vice President of Beijing Tsinghua Changgung Hospital at Tsinghua University. At present, Prof Xu also chairs the Department of Internal Medicine and is head of the rheumatology and immunology division at Shanghai Changzheng Hospital affiliated with SMMU. 

Prof Xu graduated from SMMU where he also completed his residency and internship before he went to Australia to pursue his PhD in rheumatology and clinical immunology. He then worked at Flinders Medical Center and Queensland Institute of Medical Research. Before he full time returned to China, he was an R.D. Wright fellow of the Australian National Health & Medical Research Council and a Professor at the University of Queensland.