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Personal data:
Name : Youming Li
Date of birth : August 01, 1956

Present functions: Professor of Internal Medicine,
Supervisor of doctorate students,
Director, Department of Gastroenterology,
The First Affiliated Hospital, College of Medicine
Zhejiang University

Functions within the Academic Societies:
Vice Chairman, Chinese Society of Internal Medicine
Vice Chairman, Fatty Liver and Alcoholic Liver Disease Study
Group of the Chinese Liver Disease Association

Research Interests: Alcoholic liver disease and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
Clinical and basic research in gastrointestinal cancer
Clinical and basic research in inflammatory bowel disease

Recent Publications:
(1) High serum uric acid increases the risk for nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A prospective observational study. PLoS ONE. 2010; in press. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0011578. (corresponding author)
(2) Functional proteomic analysis of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease in rat models: Enoyl-coenzyme a hydratase down-regulation exacerbates hepatic steatosis. Hepatology, 2010; 51(4): 1190-1199. (co-corresponding author)
(3) Association of serum uric acid level with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: A cross-sectional study. J Hepatol, 2009; 50(5): 1029-1034. (corresponding author)
(4) HDMCP uncouples yeast mitochondrial respiration and alleviates steatosis in L02 and hepG2 cells by decreasing ATP and H2O2 levels: a novel mechanism for NAFLD. J Hepatol, 2009; 50(5):1019-1028. (co-corresponding author)
(5) Differential expression of microRNAs in mouse liver under aberrant energy metabolic status. J Lipid Res, 2009; 50(9):1756-1765. (co-corresponding author)
(6) Proteomic analysis of hepatic ischemia/reperfusion injury and ischemic preconditioning in mice revealed the protective role of ATP5β. Proteomics, 2009; 9(2):409-419. (corresponding author)
(7) Haemoglobin and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease: Further evidence from a population-based study. Gut, 2009; 2009;58(12): 1706-1707. (corresponding author)