Dr. Daniel Q. Huang graduated from the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore. Presently, Dr. Huang is an Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore and a transplant hepatologist at the National University Hospital. He leads hepatocellular carcinoma research in the Division of Gastroenterology.
Dr. Huang's research interest is in the early detection and prevention of hepatocellular carcinoma in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and viral hepatitis. Dr. Huang is working on non-invasive strategies to detect and risk stratify chronic liver disease and hepatocellular carcinoma by leveraging advanced imaging-, genomic-, RNA-, meta-analytic-, and microbiome-based approaches. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles, with first or corresponding author publications in journals such as Cell Metabolism, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, Nature Reviews Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and the Lancet Oncology. He has received awards for his research from the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), and the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL). Dr. Huang has been an invited speaker at the annual scientific meetings of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases (AASLD), the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR), and the Asia Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL). He currently serves on the editorial board of Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics.
Area of Interest:
- Hepatocellular carcinoma
- Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
- Cirrhosis
- Non-invasive tests for fibrosis and steatosis
- Chronic hepatitis B
