Editor-in-Chief
Ying-Yong Zhao Professor, PhD, MD (University of California Irvine School of Medicine); PhD, MD/Professor (Fourth Military Medical University); Lecturer, PhD, MD (Northwest University)
Associate Editor, ExplorationPub, CA · United States
Editorial leadership for Journal of Nephrology Advances ISSN 2574-4488
Research interests
- Chronic Kidney Disease
- Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Nephrology Pharmacology
- System Biology
- Metabolomics
- Lipidomics
Biography
- Dr. Ying-Yong Zhao is professor at Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Northwest University in China.
- He is a reviewer of more than 20 famous international journals, including Clinica Chimica Acta, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology; Diabetic Medicine, Disease Markers, Biomarkers and Molecular Biosystems in the area of phytochemistry, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, metabolomics and lipidomics studies.
- He serves as 10 journal of editorial board member. Zhao has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed publications and three books.
- He received several awards including National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation Nomination Award, New Century Excellent Talents in University, Sanofi Young biological drugs Award and Fifteenth SERVIER Youth Pharmacology Award.
- His areas of expertise include structural elucidation of chemical components, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, metabolomics and lipidomics from natural medicine.
- His work is mainly focus on pharmacology, pharmacokinetic and metabolomics study of chronic kidney disease and therapeutic effects of natural medicine.
Selected publications
- New insights into TGF-β/Smad signaling in tissue fibrosis 2018 cited 1,043×
- Microbiome–metabolome reveals the contribution of gut–kidney axis on kidney disease 2019 cited 378×
- Identification of serum metabolites associating with chronic kidney disease progression and anti-fibrotic effect of 5-methoxytryptophan 2019 cited 231×
- AGE/RAGE in diabetic kidney disease and ageing kidney 2021 cited 200×
- Gut microbiota-derived tryptophan metabolism mediates renal fibrosis by aryl hydrocarbon receptor signaling activation 2020 cited 188×
- Microbiome–metabolomics reveals gut microbiota associated with glycine-conjugated metabolites and polyamine metabolism in chronic kidney disease 2019 cited 185×
Ranked by citation impact (Crossref) where available, newest otherwise · verified via ORCID.
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