Affiliation: Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, China, Department of Rheumatology, China

Dr. Hao obtained her medical degree from Tianjin Medical University, China. She pursued her internal medicine residency and work on patients with autoimmune diseases for about 3 years at the Tianjin Medical University General Hospital. Her research has focused on immunoregulatory and antitumor mechanism of traditional Chinese herbal medicine. She has found the main components of Xi-huang Pill, which have high affinities with estrogen receptor α. So far, as the first or co-first author, she has published 7 original research articles, and is the principal investigator of one grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China. She is also a lecturer at the Tianjin Medical Publishing Group. She is interested in the relationship between sex and lupus in basic mechanistic study with animal models. Currently, she is working on a project on the effects of estrogen-like components of Xi-huang Pill on lupus mouse model, as estrogen plays a vital role in the regulation of the lupus development.