Expertise

• Urology

• Urological Oncology

Biography

Professor Rong Na graduated from Fudan University Shanghai medical college and obtained MD/PhD degree in 2013. He received his residency training and urology specialty training in Shanghai, China. He took postdoctoral research training in the University of Chicago from 2015-2017 and continued his research at the University of Chicago (NorthShore University HealthSystem) from 2020-2021 as a research scientist. He also obtained an MPH degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in 2020. He is currently Clinical Assistant Professor in the Division of Urology, Department of Surgery at The University of Hong Kong.

Professor Na has special interests in urological oncology, especially in prostate cancer. His research focuses on the genetic epidemiology research, Genetic functional study, and clinical translational research for prostate cancer and other urological diseases. He has over 100 peer-reviewed publications in different impacted journals in the field, including New England Journal of Medicine, Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, European Urology, etc. He served as an editor and reviewer in different medical journals. He awarded 3 National Natural Science Foundation projects and was one of the key members of a National Key R&D Program funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST). He was the youth committee member of Chinese Urological Association from 2018-2021 and is currently the sub-committee member of Chinese Urological Association (2021-present). 

Research interests

• Genetic epidemiology and Genetic functional research for prostate cancer and other urological diseases
• Clinical translational research for prostate cancer and other urological diseases

Publications and achievements

HKU Scholars Hub/ ORCID