Dr. Niu Huang

Dr. Niu Huang earned his undergraduate degree in Physics from Nankai University. He received his doctoral degree in computational chemistry from University of Maryland at Baltimore, and followed by postdoctoral training at University of California at San Francisco. He is currently a principle investigator at National Institute of Biological Sciences (NIBS), Beijing. He has authored and coauthored over 60 peer-reviewed publications in leading journals in the fields of computational chemistry and medicinal chemistry, and has applied 10 international drug patents. His lab has demonstrated that the incorporation of more accurate treatments of physical interactions greatly facilitates structure-based ligand discovery. Currently, several novel drug candidates in treating unmet medical needs have been developed in his lab, and these compounds have served as specific chemical probes to facilitate the in vivo functional studies of the protein targets of interest.