Date: March 17, 2022

Source: Office of Scientific R&D

Huang Lu, a researcher in JNU's Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Institute of CNS Regeneration, is among 445 members of the China Association for Science and Technology' s 7th CAST Youth Talent Promotion Project (excluding candidates in special scientific and technological fields). Huang is the second JNU researcher chosen for this project, after Song Ling of the College of Information Science and Technology in the fifth session.

Initiated by CAST in 2015 as one of the Youth Talents Support Projects, this project aims to guide and support CAST's national societies, associations and research institutes in exploring new mechanisms for selecting and cultivating young scientific and technological workers, as well as to identify and support young talents who are expected to become leading figures in science and technology. The project will select highly innovative and potential talents under 32 through national societies and CAST's member societies, and help them make outstanding achievements in their prime creation period.

Huang is the winner of the Guangdong Natural Science Foundation for Distinguished Young Scholars and the author of an Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of Guangdong. He is an Outstanding Graduate of Guangdong and one of the leading innovative figures in the province. He has published nine papers as the first author in high-impact journals including Neuron, Nature Communications, Advanced Science, and Biological Reviews. He is in charge of eight state- and provincial-level projects, including the General Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of China, a project supported by the Young Scientists Fund of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and a project funded by the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation.