Rongfeng K. Hu-INSTITUTE FOR TRANSLATIONAL BRAIN RESEARCH

Rongfeng Hu

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Rongfeng K. Hu Principal Investigator

The Neurobiology of Emotion and Social behavior

Dr. Hu is currently an independent Principal Investigator of Institute for Translational Brain Research at Fudan University. Dr. Hu obtained his PhD degree in 2017 at Xi’an Jiaotong University where he focused on studying the neural circuit mechanisms of reward and punishment. He conducted his postdoctoral training (2017.05 - 2021.03) in the laboratory of Dr. Weizhe Hong at University of California, Los Angeles, studying neural mechanisms of social behavior. He joined Fudan University in 2021 as an independent Principal Investigator.

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Understanding how social behaviors are precisely encoded and regulated in the brain is a central and interesting field in Neuroscience. Social behavior is one of the most complex behaviors that social animals, including humans, can exhibit and is essential for the survival and health of an individual. In addition, social animals also have a wide range of emotions, which also profoundly influence their social behaviors. Importantly, impairments of social information and reward processing is a prominent feature of many neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder, depression and schizophrenia. Given the diversity and complexity of social behavior and emotions, it remains unclear how the brain encodes and controls social behavior and emotions as well as the neural mechanisms underlying their reciprocal regulation. Therefore, my lab will aim to study the following two important questions: (1) the neural basis of social behavior and (2) Understanding the neural basis of emotions in health and disease. These proposed research will provide new insights into how social behaviors and emotions are regulated in the brain and offer us alternative strategies to treat neuropsychiatric disorders, such as autism spectrum disorder, depression and schizophrenia.

We are actively seeking highly motivated and enthusiastic postdocs and graduate students to join our team, and we provide a supportive environment and value the continued growth and success of all lab personnel.Email your application tohurongfeng@fudan.edu.cn.