Shengxian Tu PhD

Dr. Shengxian Tu is a Professor at the School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He received his master's degree in Biomedical Engineering from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2008. After that, he joined the Medis Applied Research group as a scientific researcher, while at the same time pursuing a Ph.D. degree at the Division of Image Processing (LKEB), Department of Radiology, Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. He graduated cum laude in February 2012. He joined Shanghai Jiao Tong University as a Faculty in 2014. He is the inventor of several patents including the methods for computation of fractional flow reserve from imaging data (QFR, OFR, and UFR). He is also the founder of four quantitative analysis systems (AngioPlus, OctPlus, IvusPlus, and QAngio XA 3D RE), which are being used for clinical decisions or studies by a number of hospitals in Europe, Asia, and America. Over the past few years, he has published several articles in leading cardiovascular journals such as Eur Heart J, J Am Coll Cardiol, J Am Coll Cardiol Interv, and Circ Cardiovasc Interv. In 2014 he was accepted as a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) and in 2017 he was accepted as a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC). Currently, he serves as an associate editor of the International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging and a member of the Editorial Board of Cardiology Journal, Journal of Geriatric Cardiology, and Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy. So far, he has authored or co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and 30 patents. Dr. Tu is PI of a total of 8 approved grant applications in China for a total value of about $10M, including the National Key R&D Program of China.