黄蓓 医生

研究范畴 <只提供英文版本>

Dr. Huang’s research interests mainly focus on understanding the pathophysiology of sleep disorders especially on REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD) and identifying the novel biomarker for the prediction and intervention of Parkinson’s disease and other alpha-synuclein related neurodegenerative diseases.

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Dr. Bei Huang is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at The Chinese University of Hong Kong. She completed her medical training with honours at Soochow University and her postgraduate neurology training at the Naval Medical University, China, before earning a PhD in Medical Sciences from CUHK in 2021. She further honed her expertise as a postdoctoral fellow at CUHK before assuming her current faculty position in 2023.

With over eight years of experience, Dr. Huang’s research spans the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis of neurodegenerative diseases and sleep disorders including narcolepsy and REM sleep behavior disorder (RBD). Her current research interests are primarily focus on understanding the gut-brain hypothesis of Parkinson’s disease pathogenesis, from gut microbiota and metabolomics, intestinal disorders, host-gut microbiota interactions, to inflammatory pathways, targeting a wide spectrum of patients at early and prodromal stages of Parkinson’s disease, including RBD and their first-degree relatives. A key translational aim of her research is the development of novel gut-based diagnostic tools and therapeutics for the early identification and prevention of Parkinson’s disease and other neurodegeneration. Concurrently, as a sleep specialist, she pursues research into genetic risk factors for RBD as well as polysomnography related analysis, including the characterization of nocturnal behaviors and their dream correlates in patients with RBD and prodromal RBD. Dr. Huang’s research is funded by competitive grants including HMRF, RGC-GRF and CUHK Direct grants. She has published more than 20 research articles in prestigious journals, including Nature Communications, Annals of Neurology, and Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.