Research

Research Projects

  1. PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General  Project)
    "The function of locus coeruleus-sympathetic nervous system-Liverneural circuit in hepatic metabolism"
    January 2022 – December 2025
    (Principal Investigator)   
  2. PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General  Project)
     "Neural regulation of ovarian function by locus coeruleus and its circuitry mechanism"
     January 2020 – December 2023
     (Principal Investigator)
  3. PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (General  Project)
    "The role of GPR1 signaling in obesity-related gonadal hormone imbalance"
    January 2015 – December 2018
    (Principal Investigator)
  4. PI, National Natural Science Foundation of China (Young  Scientist Fund Project)
    "Investigation of the expression and mechanism of action of the adipokine chemerin and its receptor in Leydig cells"
    January 2013 – December 2015
     (Principal Investigator)
  5. PI, Collaborative Project of Alliance of International Science Organizations (ANSO) Joint Research Collaboration Program
    "The Impact of Microplastics on Brain Health and Reproductive Health and the Damage of Barrier Function"
    January 2022 – December 2024
     (Principal Investigator)  
  6. PI, Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Department - International Cooperation Project
    "Study on the effects of microplastics and associated environmental pollutants on the reproductive capacity of parents and offspring"
    January 2020 – December 2021
    (Principal Investigator)
  7. PI, Shenzhen Medical Research Fund (General Project)
    "Effects of stress on sperm quality and its brain-testis axis mechanism"
    January 2024 – December 2026
     (Principal Investigator)
     (affiliation Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology) 
  8. Co-PI, Shenzhen Municipal Science and Technology Research and Development Fund for Basic Research
    "Research on male infertility due to abnormal spermatocyte division"
    March 2019 – March 2022
    (Co-Principal Investigator) 
  9. PI, Shenzhen Municipal Overseas High-Level Talent Innovation and Entrepreneurship Special Fund Project
    "Study of the brain mechanisms linking anxiety and infertility"
    June 2016 – June 2018
    (Principal Investigator)
  10. PI, Shenzhen Municipal Strategic Emerging Industries Development Special Fund for Basic Research
    "Investigation of the role and intervention of chemerin in obesity and related reproductive diseases"
     December 2014 – December 2016
     (Principal Investigator)