Biography:

Ding Kexiang is currently a professor and chief expert in research topics at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at the Southern Medical University of China. He previously served as director of the Molecular Medicine Laboratory at ABTRI, as well as a visiting doctoral tutor at the Basic Medical College of Bethune Medical University and a member of the echelon of doctoral tutors at the Institute of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine at Sun Yat-sen Medical University. In addition, Dr. Kexiang has held visiting professor positions at the University of Virginia and Harvard University, and served as a postdoctoral research scholar at the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine.

Prof. Ding received several prestigious awards in 1992, including “National Young and Middle Aged Scientific and Technological Expert with Outstanding Contribution” and “Special Government Allowance Expert.” He also earned the “First China Young Scientist Entrepreneurship Award,” the “Bioengineering Expert” award, and was recognized as a research professor by various institutions. In addition, he was named one of the “Top Ten Outstanding Young People in Guangzhou” and awarded “Top Ten Rookie of Science and Technology.”

In 2006, he was appointed lifelong chief scientist by the International Nutrition and Hygiene Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, and lifelong honorary chairman by the Canadian International Institute of Health Sciences and Technology. He was also awarded lifelong honorary chairman by the North American Beauty and Health Association in Vancouver, Canada.

Additionally, he serves as a visiting professor and academic advisor at Tai E College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in Quebec, Canada. He is chairman of the expert committee of the Organizing Committee of the Southeast Asian Regional Medical Aesthetic Conference, a counselor and expert committee member of CIDESIC SECTION in Hong Kong, and academic adviser of Taiwan Free Radical Biomedical Research Center.

He also holds various positions including vice chairman of China Anti-aging Science and Technology Society, expert committee member of China Health Care Association, and vice chairman of China Beauty Industry Association. He is on the editorial board of several scientific journals including Free Radical Biomedicine, Chinese Journal of Gerontology, Practical Geriatrics, Modern Geriatrics, Microcirculation, and Chinese Cosmetics Magazine. He also serves as the editor-in-chief or deputy editor-in-chief of other Chinese and international scientific journals.