Yu Xueqing MD, PhD

Prof. Yu Xueqing currently serves as the president of Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital/Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences. He holds academic positions including president-elect of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, Executive member of Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology and Chair of CME committee, President of Asian Renal Association, Editor board member of American Journal Kidney Diseases and subject editor of Nephrology.

He undertakes 44 scientific research funds. He is the winner of 1 second prize National Sci-Tech Advance Award and 1 Sci-Tech Progress Award of the Ministry of Education. He has published 443 scientific papers, among which 181 were indexed by SCI, including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Metabolism, Science Translational Medicine and etc. Prof. Yu is also Changjiang Scholarship professor of Ministry of Education, winner of National Fund for Distinguished Young Scholars. He established a Peritoneal Dialysis Center with world leading patient survival and technical survival rates, which is praised as “The Guangzhou model”. The prestigious academic journal Lancet describes him as “a driving force in Chinese nephrology”.