Affiliation: Vanderbilt University, Center of Structural Biology

Dr. Hui Huang, graduated from Auburn University, School of Veterinary Medicine in 2014 and is currently a research instructor in the Center of Structural Biology at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Huang has a scientific research background in the interdisciplinary fields of pathophysiological roles of KCNQ1 in cardiac arrhythmia, and structural and functional studies of G-protein coupled receptors in obesity. Dr. Huang’s recent work is mainly focused on studying the mechanisms of KCNQ1 channel dysfunction in long QT syndrome involving voltage sensor domain mutations. Dr. Huang has published about 20 papers in the top international journals such as Science Advances, Elife, Chemical Reviews, Clinical and Translational Medicine in the past five years.