Christopher L.-H. Huang
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Christopher Li-Hur Huang (born 28 December 1951) is an Asian-British physiologist and academic, known for his contributions in cellular physiology. He is Emeritus Professor of Cell Physiology at the University of Cambridge and Fellow Emeritus of Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, UK.[1]
Huang's research addresses the generation, propagation and transduction of biological signals at the cellular and systems levels. It particularly focusses on the mechanisms underlying skeletal and cardiac muscle activation.[2]
Christopher Huang was born in Singapore in 1951. His school education was in Malaysia and Singapore, the latter culminating in award of a President's Scholarship.[3] He was elected to a Florence Heale Open Scholarship at The Queen's College, University of Oxford, to read for a B.A. in Physiological Sciences conferred in 1974, and clinical training, with medical degrees (B.M., B.Ch.) conferred in 1976.[1]
Following pre-registration appointments (1977-8) in the Nuffield Department of Medicine, Oxford, he pursued research in the University of Cambridge as a Medical Research Council (MRC) Scholar in Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge under the supervision of Lord Adrian, completing a Ph.D. in membrane biophysics in 1979.[4] He was subsequently conferred degrees of D.M. by Oxford in 1985, M.D. by Cambridge in 1986, and D.Sc. (Oxford) and Sc.D. (Cambridge) both in 1995. He was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Biology (FRSB) in 2011, European Society of Cardiology (FESC) in 2016, Physiological Society (FTPS) in 2017, and Sigma Xi in 2025. He is a recipient of the Benefactor's and Brian Johnson (Oxford), Gedge (Cambridge) and LEPRA (British Leprosy Relief Association) Prizes.[5]
