Curriculum
Vitae
I. Personal
Information
Name: Dejian HUANG
Current
position: Associate Professor, Food Science and Technology Programme, Department of Chemistry, National
University of Singapore, 3 Science Drive 3,
Singapore 117543, Tel: 65-6516-8821. Fax: (65)6775-7895, e-mail: chmhdj@nus.edu.sg.
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com.sg/citations?user=esiQLQYAAAAJ&hl=en
II. Education
1994-1999 Ph.D., Inorganic Chemistry (minor in
Organic Chemistry), Indiana University Bloomington, Advisor:
Professor Kenneth G. Caulton
1987-1990 M.S., Organic Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou,
China. Advisor: Prof. Linghui Tong
1983-1987 B.S., Chemistry, Fujian Normal
University, Fuzhou, China
III.
Research focus
areas:
1.
Plant bioactive
compounds for human health, especially dietary antioxidants, starch hydrolase
inhibitors, induced phytoalexins, proanthocyanidins, natural products with anti-aging
property, functional food for controlling postprandial hyperglycemia. Dietary
organosulfides as slow H2S donors for health promotion
2.
Near absorption
and fluorescence materials for sensing, optoelectronic materials, and photocatalysis applications
3.
Luminescent
molecular and nanoprobes for sensing of reactive oxygen species of biological and environmental
concerns (NO2, NO, SO2, ClO-, H2O2,
1O2).
IV.
Five signature publications
1. Yuyun
Lu, Manuela. F. Demleitner, Lixia Song, Michael Rychlik, Dejian Huang*. Oligomeric proanthocyanidins are the active
compounds in Abelmoschus esculentus
Moench for its ?-amylase and ?-glucosidase inhibition activity, Journal of Functional Foods, 2016, 20, 463-471.
2. Dong
Liang, Haixia Wu, Ming Wah Wong, and Dejian
Huang*, Diallyl trisulfide is a fast H2S donor, but diallyl
disulfide is a slow one: the reaction pathways and intermediates of glutathione
with polysulfides. Organic Letters 2015, 17, 4196–4199.
3. Yan Yan,
Saarangan Krishnakumar, Huan Yu, Srinivas Ramishetti, Lih Wen Deng, Suhua Wang,
Leaf Huang, Dejian Huang*. Nickel(II) dithiocarbamate complexes containing sulforhodamine B as
fluorescent probes for selective detection of nitrogen dioxide. Journal
of the American Chemical Society, 2013,
135, 5312-5315.
4. Suhua
Wang, Ming-Yong Han, Dejian Huang*.
Nitric oxide switches on the photoluminescence of molecularly engineered
quantum dots. Journal of the American Chemical Society 2009, 131,
11692-11694.
5. Dejian Huang,* Boxin Ou, Prior, Ronald L.
Prior. the
Chemistry behind antioxidant assays (Review)
J. Agri. Food Chem. Journal of
Agricultural Food Chemistry. 2005, 53, 1841-1856.
V.
HONORS and ROLES
1. Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher
(ranking among the top 1% of researchers for most cited documents in Agricultural
Sciences) 2014 and 2015.
2 Advisory Committee member on evaluation
of health claims, Singapore Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore,
3. 2015-2017.B.S., 1987, Fujian Teachers University; M.S., 1990, Chinese Academy of Sciences; Ph.D.,
4. 1999, Indiana University Bloomington; Post Doctoral Fellow, 1999-2001, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Topic: High
throughput assay-guided approach for development of evidence based functional
foods containing bioactive natural products isolated from tropical plants
His interest is about Anti-aging medicine, bioactive constituents in edible plants, Chinese herbal medicine, dietary antioxidants and oxidative stress, functional foods for controlling hyperglycemia, luminescent molecular and nanoprobes for detection of small molecules (NO, NO2, H2S, ClO-, etc) of biological importance. High throughput screening methodology development....
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