Han XIAO, M.D. Ph.D.

Professor of Medicine

Department of Cardiology and Institute of Vascular Medicine

Peking University Third Hospital

Email: xiaohan@bjmu.edu.cn

Dr. Han XIAO is a professor of medicine at Peking University Third Hospital and the principal investigator at the State Key Laboratory of Vascular Homeostasis and Remodeling, Peking University. She received her M.D. & Ph.D. from Peking University in 2008 and continued her postdoctoral research at the University of California, Riverside, USA, from 2010 to 2012. Her research primarily focuses on the inflammatory mechanisms underlying cardiac remodeling and potential therapeutic strategies.  Recently, she has primarily focused on adrenergic signaling and cardiac remodeling.

As the first or corresponding author, she has published 40 papers in prestigious journals, including Circulation Research, European Heart Journal, and Circulation.

As the chief principal investigator, she has acquired foundations from the National Science Fund for Outstanding Young Scholars, the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and the National Key Research and Development Program. She obtained the CNPHARS-SERVIER Young Investigator Award in Pharmacology (2017), the Chiang Pi-ning award-outstanding Young Investigator Award (2020), and the VCANBIO Award for Innovations and Breakthroughs in Life Sciences and Medicine (2021). She currently serves as the Deputy Secretary-General of the Chinese Committee of the International Society for Heart Research (ISHR).