Program and book of abstracts 1st conference

October 17 th – 20 th , 2022, Congress Centre of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Smolenice castle, Slovakia

Liu Jiankang

Dr. Jiankang Liu received his BS fromXi’an Jiaotong Unviersity and PhD of Medical Science from Okayama University School of Medicine, Japan. He completed post-doc training in Dr. Bruce Ames laboratory at University of California, Berkeley and worked as a faculty at University of California at Berkeley, Children Hospital Oakland Research Institute, University of California at Irvine, University of Kentucky College of Medicine, and Shanghai Institute for Nutritional Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences. Currently, he is a Professor and Director of the Institute of Biomedicine and Health, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Qingdao and Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University at Xi’an, China. Dr. Liu’s research interests include molecular and cellular mechanisms of aging, stress, and age-/stress-associated degenerative diseases with a focus on nutritional regulation of mitochondrial metabolism. He has published more 250 papers with more than 17,000 times citations (H-index 72) and was elected as one of the Most Cited Chinese Researchers in the area of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology by Elsevier consecutively for 8 years (2014-2021) and the World Top 1.5% Scientist (2019-2022). HYDROGEN MEDICINE: A RISING STAR IN GAS MEDICINE University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Qingdao, China and Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, China E-mail: j.liu@mail.xjtu.edu.cn Gas medicine, including O 2 , NO, H 2 S, CO, CH 4 , has played important roles in prevention and treatment of diseases for long time. Molecular hydrogen (H 2 ), the smallest diatomic molecule in nature, has become a rising star in gas medicine in the past decades. Many studies have shown that H 2 has preventive and therapeutic effects on various diseases through various complicated mechanisms including its regulation to mitochondrial homeostasis as a mitochondrial nutrient. H 2 , as a non-toxic gas for the human body and convenience to obtain, has provided a great possibility to use wildly. Currently, the main difficulties in hydrogen medicine are lack of definitive clinical evidence and the molecular basis of hydrogen effects. In this presentation, I will try to give a comprehensive review and analysis of these issues, and also proposed the possibility of developing Hydrogen Biology and Hydrogen Medicine as new disciplines of biology
and medicine.

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