Kun Hu
Dr. Hu is the Director of the Medical Biodynamics Program (MBP) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Dr. Hu is currently serving in the research committees of Sleep Research Society and the International Cerebral Autoregulation Research Network, and in the editoral boards of a number of international journals including Scientific Reports and Frontiers in Physiology. Dr.Hu’s research lies in the interdisciplinary fields of statistical physics and physiology. By utilizing novel concepts and methods derived from statistical physics and nonlinear dynamics, his studies have led to many novel findings in the control mechanisms of behavioral, cardiovascular, and circadian systems as well their alterations with aging and pathological conditions (http://sleep.med.harvard.edu/people/faculty/1087/Kun+Hu+PhD). To promote such translational research in medicine and to facilitate the interdisciplinary collaborations, Dr. Hu have established the translational research program (MBP) at BMH/HMS. The long-term goal of the program is to establish a new framework to understand integrative, dynamic physiologic control in health and disease. His research in the last 5 years has been focused on fractal control in motor activity and cardiac dynamics, the role of the circadian clock in these multi-scale physiological regulations, and the applications of fractal control to non-invasive monitoring and prediction of dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. In collaboration with Dr. Garaulet, Dr. Hu has recently started to apply the nonlinear dynamic approaches to obesity research with the aim to establish the important mechanistic link between the genetic variant of clock gens, the circadian regulation, and obesity.
