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 of International Society for Peritoneal Dialysis, Executive Committee member of the International Society of Nephrology, President-elect of Asian-Pacific Society of Nephrology, President of Asian Renal Association, Editor board member of American Journal Kidney Diseases and Kidney International, subject editor of Nephrology.
He undertakes 52 scientific research funds. He is the winner of 9 prizes including 1 second prize National Sci-Tech Advance Award, 1 Sci-Tech Progress Award of the Ministry of Education, and 1 first prize of the Natural Science of Guangdong province. He has published 443 scientific papers, among which 190 were indexed by SCI, including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Cell Metabolism, Science Translational Medicine, etc. He has published 17 academic monographs, including 8 chief editors .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, The prestigious academic journal Lancet describes him as “a driving force in Chinese nephrology”.