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Ren-You Gan

Hong Kong Polytechnic University, National University of Singapore, University of Hong Kong, Sun Yat-sen University, Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation, A*STAR, Singapore

Research areas: Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Food Science · Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities · Polysaccharides Composition and Applications · Tea Polyphenols and Effects

ORCID iD 0000-0002-4162-1511
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Dr. GAN Renyou is an Assistant Professor & Presidential Young Scholar at Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Science, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU, 2024-present), Hong Kong. He received his medical bachelor degree from Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU) in 2009, and Ph.D. degree from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) in 2016. He was previously an Assistant Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU, 2017-2019), a Chief Scientist at the Institute of Urban Agriculture (IUA, 2019-2022), Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS), a Principal Scientist at Singapore Institute of Food and Biotechnology Innovation (SIFBI, 2022-2024), Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Department of Food Science & Technology, National University of Singapore (NUS, 2023-2024), Singapore.
His research mainly focuses on plant-based foods, food functional ingredients, probiotics, gut microbiome and human nutrition/health. He has hosted/participated in more than 15 different grants, with accumulated funding exceeding 10 million RMB, and related work has generated over 250 SCIE-indexed publications, including more than 140 papers as the first/corresponding author, and more than 30 ESI highly cited papers. He has also filed more than 30 Chinese patents, with 20 of them awarded. According to Google Scholar, his publications have been cited more than 28,700 times, with an H-index of 89.
He serves as the editorial board member of several international journals, like Food as Medicine (Editor-in-Chief), iMeta (Executive Associate Editor), iMetaOmics (Executive Editor), Current Research in Biotechnology (Executive Editor), Fermentation (Section Editor-in-Chief), Frontiers in Nutrition (Section Associate Editor), Nutrients/Antioxidants/Foods/Antibiotics/npj Science of Food/Discover Food (Editorial Board members). He has been selected as the Clarivate “Highly Cited Researcher” (Agricultural Sciences, 2021-2023) and the Stanford University “World Top 2% Scientists” (Food Science, 2020-2025).

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