Dr. Hailan Hu is the Professor and Director of the School of Brain Sciences and Brain Medicine at Zhejiang University. Dr. Hu graduated from Beijing University with a B.S. degree in Biochemistry (1996). She pursued her Ph.D. degree in neuroscience at University of California at Berkeley with Prof. Corey Goodman. After completing PhD (2002), she conducted postdoctoral research with Dr. Julius Zhu at University of Virginia (2003-2004), and Dr. Roberto Malinow at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (2004-2008). Before joining Zhejiang University, Dr. Hu was a principal investigator at the Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences (2008-2015). Her laboratory seeks to understand how emotional and social behaviors are encoded and regulated in the brain. Dr. Hu is a recipient of the CAS Excellent Mentorship Award, the IBRO Kemali International Neuroscience Award and UNESCO-L’Oreal Women Scientist Award.
