Huan Liu
Professor
Vice Dean of School of Public Health
Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health
Tianjin Medical University
22 Qixiangtai Road
Tianjin 300070
Nutrition and Neuroscience
Phone: +86-22-83336122
Email Address: liuhuan@tmu.edu.cn
Education
Ph.D., Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, 2011
M.S., Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China, 2006
B.S., Medical Nutrition, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, Guangdong, China, 2003
Professional Background
2022- Professor, Tianjin Medical University, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health
2013-2021 Associate Professor, Tianjin Medical University, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health
2008-2013 Lecturer, Tianjin Medical University, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health
2006-2008 Assistant Professor, Tianjin Medical University, Department of Pediatric Health, School of Public Health
2014-2015 Visiting Scholar, Cornell University, USA, Department of Nutritional Sciences
Awards Received
1.Distinguished Teacher of Ideological and Political Education in Tianjin Universities, 2021
2.The fourth person to complete the second prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award for Higher Education, 2018
3.Second member of the team for the national first-class undergraduate course Nutrition and Food Hygiene, 2019
4.The Second Prize of the 13th University Young Teachers' Basic Skills Competition in Tianjin, 2016
5.Tianjin Medical University Outstanding teacher Award，2018
6.2nd level talent, 131 independent innovation, Tianjin, 2015.
Other Roles
1.Standing Director, Nutrition and Neuroscience Committee of Chinese Nutrition Society
2.Director, Tianjin Nutrition Society
Publications
1.Huang L, Ma Z, Ze X, Zhao X, Zhang M, Lv X, Zheng Y, Liu H*. Gut microbiota decreased inflammation induced by chronic unpredictable mild stress through affecting NLRP3 inflammasome. Front Cell Infect Microbiol. 2023 May 24;13:1189008.
2.Fan J, Ma Z, Zheng Y, Zhang M, Huang L, Liu H*. Folate Deficiency Increased Microglial Amyloid-β Phagocytosis via the RAGE Receptor in Chronic Unpredictable Mild-Stress Rat and BV2 Cells. Nutrients. 2023 Aug 8;15(16):3501.
3.Fu M, Liang X, Zhang X, Yang M, Ye Q, Qi Y, Liu H*, Zhang X*. Astaxanthin delays brain aging in senescence-accelerated mouse prone 10: inducing autophagy as a potential mechanism. Nutr Neurosci. 2022 Apr 6:1-11.
4.Fu M#, Zhang X#, Zhang X#, Yang L, Luo S, Liu H*. Autophagy Plays a Role in the Prolongation of the Life Span of Caenorhabditis elegans by Astaxanthin. Rejuvenation Res. 2021 Jun;24(3):198-205.
5.Li M#, Li W#, Gao Y, Chen Y, Bai D, Weng J, Du Y, Ma F, Wang X, Liu H*, Huang G*. Effect of folic acid combined with docosahexaenoic acid intervention on mild cognitive impairment in elderly: a randomized double-blind, placebo-controlled trial. Eur J Nutr. 2021 Jun;60(4):1795-1808.
Grants
1. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Study on the mechanism of DHA and its derived specialized pro-resolving lipid mediators (SPMs) in postponing brain aging based on lipid droplet-mitochondrial interactions (Grant Number:82473631). 2025.01- 2028.12
2. National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on the neuroimmune mechanism of folic acid combined with DHA on improving cognitive decline (Grant Number:82173516). 2022.01- 2025.12
3. Key Project of Scientific Research Program of Tianjin Municipal Education Commission: Research on the mechanism of action of folic acid on β-amyloid metabolism and cognitive function through exosomes. (Grant Number:2019ZD026). 2019.12- 2022.11
4. Youth Fund of National Natural Science Foundation of China: Research on the mechanism of folic acid on neural stem cells of transgenic AD mice based on microRNA-regulation (Grant Number: 81202200). 2013.01-2015.12