Yuan Hu received her doctoral degree in Pathogens from Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, in 2007. She worked as a researcher at the National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research) (2007 to present). She recently led the Project of the Shanghai Natural Science Foundation (23ZR1469500). She has published thirty papers in various journals. Her research topics mainly include schistosomiasis, liver fibrosis, vaccines, Echinococcus granulosis, and so on.