Biography

Lihua Huang currently serves as Director of the Chinese Society of Toxicology and Director of the Chinese Society of Environmental Mutagenesis. She is also a member of both the Professional Committee of Epigenetic Toxicology and the Professional Committee of Industrial Toxicology under the Chinese Society of Toxicology. Her primary research focuses on environmental pollutant exposure and human health effects, with particular emphasis on the toxic effects of environmental chemicals (such as rare earth elements and heavy metals) on the respiratory system and their epigenetic mechanisms. As principal investigator, she has led four projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Regional Projects in 2017, 2019, and 2021, and a General Project in 2023), as well as ten additional research projects. She has published over 40 papers as first or corresponding author, including five in SCI-indexed journals with impact factors greater than 10, and eight in journals ranked in the Chinese Academy of Sciences Journal Partition Q1. Her findings have been presented at numerous national academic conferences, and she has been invited to serve on the editorial board of the journal Toxicology. She also holds one licensed invention patent.