Professor Bing Hu

The Global Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Bing's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

About Bing

Professor Bing Hu is the immediate past Associate Head of School (Research) at Peninsula Dental School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth in the United Kingdom, where he is also Professor of Oral Biology and Director of the Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Laboratory. Professor Hu obtained his general dentistry (BDS) and Orthodontics degrees (MSc) from Capital Medical University, Beijing and two doctoral degrees: Orthodontics and Oral Biology from Capital Medical University, and Cellular & Molecular biology from University of Strasbourg. Professor Hu was trained as dentist and orthodontist, and cell and molecular biologist. He has received postdoctoral training at Professor Gian Paolo-Dotto’s lab (University of Lausanne and Harvard Medical School) and worked as Lecturer at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne before he joined University of Plymouth. Professor Hu has been working in tooth development, stem cells and regeneration, and skin development and cancer. His works have been published in Cell, Genes & Development, EMBO J, Nature Communications, Journal of Dental Research etc. and he was the co-author for papers published in Nature Cell Biology, Nature Communications, Journal of Clinical Investigation, EMBO Molecular Medicine, Cell Death Differentiation etc. He has received many international prizes including the IADR’s William J. Gies Award and the Cover of the Year Award for Journal of Dental Research in 2006. Professor Hu’s PhD students have also won the 2015 and 2017 BSODR Unilever prize. Professor Hu serves as a member of the UKRI Peer Review College and is the reviewer for most of the UK and EU funding agencies. Professor Hu has also received the prestige EU Marie Curie fellowship.

2020.4 - Professor and Chair of Oral Biology, Peninsula Dental School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, UK
2020.8 - 2024.1, Associate Head of School (Research), Peninsula Dental School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, UK
2000 - Registered dentist and orthodontist (China, Registration number: 120110000000017)
2019.10 - Distinguished Professor, School of Stomatology, Zhe Jiang Chinese Medicine University, China
2018.9 - Visiting Professor, Shen Yang Hospital for Stomatology, Faculty of Stomatology, Da Lian University, China
2013.7 - 2020.7, Associate Professor (Reader) in Oral and Dental Health Research, Peninsula Dental School, Faculty of Health, University of Plymouth, UK
2013.4 - 2017.4, External Expert, School of Dentistry, University of Geneva, Switzerland
2009.1 - 2013.6, Lecturer, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2006 – 2009, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Biochemistry, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
2002 – 2006, Research Assistant, Research Center, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Strasbourg, France
2003 – 2005, Clinical Resident, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, University of Strasbourg, France
1997 – 2002, Clinical Resident, Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Stomatology, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China

Supervised Research Degrees

Donald Singer (PhD) , as DoS, 2019 Jemma Walker (PhD), as DoS, 2019 Jonathan Davis (PhD), as DoS, 2019 Chloe Walker (PhD), as DoS, 2021 Portia Grayson (PhD), as DoS, 2021 Charlotte Illsley (PhD), as DoS, 2023