In response to the hospital's research needs and with the approval of the District Health Authorities, the hospital plans to recruit 15 postdoctoral fellows. Details are as follows:
I. Basic Requirements
Full-time doctoral degree holder; candidates who will obtain their doctoral degree in 2026, or have obtained a doctoral degree within the past 3 years.
Age 35 years or younger.
Major in Medicine, Biology, Biomedical Engineering, or Bioengineering. The specific major and research direction must align with the recruitment requirements of the respective postdoctoral supervisor’s research projects.
Candidates must demonstrate a strong commitment to research and proven research capability, with at least one research paper published as first author or corresponding author in a leading international journal in their field.
II. Supervisor Profiles and Research Directions
(1) Zhu Yuanfang, M.D.
Second-level Chief Physician of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. Currently serves as Party Committee Secretary of Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital. He is the Discipline Leader of the National Preconception Care Specialty and Guangdong Provincial Key Clinical Specialty (Obstetrics). He serves as Chair of the Community Service Committee of the China Maternal and Child Health Association, Vice Chair of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the China Maternal and Child Health Association, Vice Chair of the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, and Chair of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association. His main research direction is clinical and basic research in maternal-fetal medicine. He has led multiple national, provincial, and municipal natural science foundation projects and published 32 articles as first and corresponding author in high-impact journals including Cell.
Research Directions:
Clinical and basic research in maternal-fetal medicine
Bioinformatics
Medicine-engineering integration
Email:zhuyf1027@163.com
(2) Zhang Quanfu, Chief Physician, Doctoral Supervisor
Vice President of Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital and Director of the Prenatal Diagnosis Center. He has 30 years of clinical experience in maternal-fetal medicine and high-risk pregnancy, with extensive expertise in twin pregnancies, autoimmune diseases in pregnancy, assisted reproductive pregnancy management, and preterm birth prevention. He has led multiple research projects funded by the National Health Commission and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, with cumulative funding exceeding one million RMB. He has published over 60 papers in authoritative journals such as Journal of Hepatology(IF:33.0), Nature Communications(IF:15.7), Cell Death Discovery, Digit Health, and Chinese Journal of Perinatal Medicine. He serves as a peer reviewer for journals including Frontiers in Endocrinology. He holds multiple academic positions, including Vice Chair of the Twin Pregnancy Committee of the China Maternal and Child Health Association, Vice Chair of the Maternal and Child Clinical Division of the China Eugenics Science Association, and Chair of the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association.
Research Directions:
Clinical and basic research on high-risk pregnancy and twin pregnancies
Management of assisted reproductive pregnancies and preterm birth prevention
Mechanisms and treatment of immune system diseases in pregnancy
Application of maternal-fetal medicine and prenatal diagnosis technologies
Email:szzhqf@126.com
(3) Li Zhongxiang, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow at Zhejiang University, Researcher at the Institute of Maternal and Child Medicine, Master's Supervisor. She has led 7 research projects, including General Projects of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects, and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission projects.
Research Directions:
Reproduction and embryonic development
Mechanisms of embryo-originated diseases
Email:zhongxiangli@foxmail.com
(4) Chen Xiaoyan, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Chief Physician, Associate Professor, Doctoral Supervisor. Currently serves as Director of the Shenzhen Bao’an Clinical Research Center for Gynecological and Reproductive Diseases and Director of the Institute of Maternal-Fetal Medicine at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital. She serves as Vice Chair of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Committee of the Chinese Women Physicians Association, member of the Infection and Immunology Group of the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, member of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, Vice Chair of the Youth Committee of the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, Standing Committee Member of the Medical Microecology Committee of the Shenzhen Medical Association, member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association, and Vice Chair of the Youth Committee of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association. Her research focuses on clinical and basic research in recurrent miscarriage, maternal-fetal interface microenvironment, embryonic development, and uterine structure and function. She has published over 30 papers as first/corresponding author (including co-authorship) in journals including Celland AJOG, and has led 13 national, provincial, and municipal-level research projects.
Research Directions:
Clinical and basic research in maternal-fetal medicine
Embryonic development
Bioinformatics
Medicine-engineering integration
Email:chenxiaoyan@cuhk.edu.hk
(5) Liu Bin, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Physician at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital, Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM), UK. He has led over 10 research projects, including NSFC General Projects, Provincial Natural Science/Technology Projects, and projects funded by Guangzhou and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commissions, with cumulative funding exceeding two million RMB. He has received the Second Prize of Science and Technology Award from the Chinese Preventive Medicine Association and the Second Prize of Guangdong Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award. In the past three years, as corresponding author, he has published 5 SCI papers in journals including CELLSand JOURNAL OF OVARIAN RESEARCH, including one with an impact factor >7 and three with impact factors <5 but in JCR Q1. He holds one authorized invention patent. His main research direction is disease biomarker research, with a focus in the past two years on multi-omics studies of female advanced maternal age fertility.
Research Directions:
Multi-omics analysis (methylomics, metabolomics, proteomics) combined with cohort studies; preference for candidates with expertise in Mendelian Randomization (MR) or machine learning.
Candidates with prior cohort studies on female reproductive diseases (including ovaries, endometrial diseases, or assisted reproduction cohorts) and at least one highly relevant SCI paper as first author; preference for those with experience in functional studies of ovarian granulosa cells and endometrial cells.
Cohort studies on health effects of environmental exposure indicators; preference for candidates with experience in cellular senescence-related experiments.
Email:gz12liubin@163.com
(6) Sun Bo, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Physician, Master's Supervisor. She serves as Head of the Maternal Health Department, Director of the Obstetrics Dept, and Director of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Teaching and Research Office at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital. She is also Head of the Guangdong Provincial Key Clinical Specialty and Head of the National Sub-specialty for Gestational Metabolic Diseases. She holds multiple academic positions, including Standing Committee Member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the China Eugenics Science Association, Standing Committee Member of the Female Reproductive Health Drug Research Committee of the China Association of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Vice Chair of the Guangdong Midwifery Association, Vice Chair of the Maternal and Child Health Management Committee of the Guangdong Maternal and Child Health Association, Deputy Head of the Hypertension Subgroup of the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, Vice Chair of the Third Council of the Obstetrics and Gynecology Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Doctor Association, Vice Chair of the Perinatal Health Management Committee of the Shenzhen Health Management Association, and Standing Committee Member of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association. She has led 9 national, provincial, and municipal research projects, with cumulative funding of 1.1 million RMB. In the past three years, as first or corresponding author, she has published 5 SCI papers in journals including Placentaand Stem Cell Research, and holds one authorized patent.
Research Directions:
Clinical and basic research in maternal-fetal medicine
Clinical and basic research on high-risk pregnancy (gestational metabolic diseases, placental diseases, assisted reproductive pregnancies, etc.)
Email:purple_2002@126.com
(7) Zhou Tao
Chief Physician of Pediatrics, Head of the General Pediatrics Dept, Discipline Leader of Pediatrics. He is a Category C Talent under Shenzhen’s “Pengcheng Peacock Plan” and a High-Level Talent of Bao’an District. He holds a doctoral degree from Capital Medical University and serves as Master's Supervisor. He is a Standing Committee Member of the Child Nutrition Committee of the China Maternal and Child Health Association, member of the Emergency Medicine Group of the Pediatrics Branch of the Chinese Medical Association, Deputy Head of the Critical Care Digestion and Extracorporeal Nutrition Collaboration Group, member of the Pediatric Committee of the Extracorporeal Life Support Committee of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, member of the Pediatric Critical Care Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Vice Chair of the Pediatric Critical Illness Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, and Vice Chair of the Pediatric Committee of the Guangdong Maternal and Child Health Association. He is also an editorial board member of the Chinese Journal of Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He has over 20 years of experience in pediatric clinical care, teaching, and research, having worked at the Beijing Children's Hospital Emergency Center for 10 years and completed a 6-month fellowship at Hong Kong University’s Queen Mary Hospital. He has led or participated in multiple provincial and municipal research projects, received one First Prize and two Second Prizes of Municipal Science and Technology Progress Awards, and published over 40 papers, including 6 SCI papers. He co-authored China’s first evidence-based guideline in pediatric critical care, the Guidelines for Nutritional Assessment and Support for Critically Ill Children (2018), and contributed to 9 major textbooks, including Zhu Futang’s Practical Pediatrics(9th Edition), Pediatric Emergency Medicine(5th Edition), and Core Course in Child Nutrition.
Specialties:Pediatric nutrition, allergies and infectious diseases, critical care, cardiovascular diseases.
Research Directions:
Cohort study on childhood food allergies and molecular mechanisms of immune tolerance
Basic and clinical research on pulmonary fibrosis
Basic and clinical research on immune mechanisms related to viral infections
Email:1438821620@qq.com
(8) Wang Feng, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Chief Physician, Master's Supervisor. Postdoctoral Fellow at Tulane University, Dept of Environmental Health, USA. He is a Guangdong Provincial Distinguished Young Medical Talent and a High-Level Talent of Bao’an District, Shenzhen. He serves as Deputy Director (Presiding) of the Clinical Lab at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital. He has led 1 NSFC project, 4 provincial/ministerial-level projects, and co-led 1 major Shenzhen basic research project. He has published over 40 papers, including 10 SCI papers, and is associate editor of 2 monographs. He received the Second Prize of the National Science and Technology Progress Award (2010) and the First Prize of the Chinese Preventive Medicine Science and Technology Progress Award.
Research Directions:
Relationship between hormone metabolism circulation pathways and adolescent mood changes
LC-MS/MS-based study of nutritional and metabolic circulation in patients with thyroid dysfunction during pregnancy and its disease relevance and mechanisms
Email:wangfengnew@qq.com
(9) Wu Lijuan, M.D., Ph.D.
Visiting Scholar, Dept of Microbiology, New York University School of Medicine. She serves as Deputy Director of the Clinical Lab at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital, Chief Technologist, Master's Supervisor, and Postdoctoral Co-supervisor. She holds academic positions including Standing Committee Member of the Medical Laboratory Committee of the China Eugenics Association, member of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Committee of the Chinese Hospital Association, and member of the Clinical Microbiology Branch of the China International Exchange and Promotive Association for Medical and Health Care. She has led or participated in 18 research projects, including national/provincial projects, Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission projects, and corporate-funded projects, with cumulative funding exceeding 8 million RMB. In the past three years, she has published 5 SCI papers.
Research Directions:
Female reproductive tract pathogens and infection microecology
New diagnostic technologies for pathogenic microorganisms and clinical applications
Etiology and molecular epidemiology of infections in women and children
Email:6345650@qq.com
(10) Fan Xiaomei, Chief Pharmacist, Ph.D. in Pharmacology
Director of the Pharmacy Dept at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital, Master's Supervisor, Shenzhen High-Level Talent. Research directions: pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics, molecular mechanisms of drug-induced diseases, adverse drug reaction monitoring, and personalized pediatric medication. She has led 10 research projects, including NSFC projects, Guangdong Provincial Natural Science Foundation projects, and Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission projects, and has published over 40 academic papers, including 30 SCI papers.
Research Directions:
Pharmacogenomics and pharmacokinetics
Molecular mechanisms of drug-induced diseases
Adverse drug reaction monitoring
Personalized pediatric medication
Email:(Not provided in original)
(11) Zhou Xincai, M.D., Ph.D.
Chief Physician, Master's Supervisor at Jinan University. He serves as Vice Chair of the Shenzhen Oral Implantology Committee. He has published over 30 papers, including 15 indexed in SCI. He has led or participated in 6 research projects, including those funded by the NSFC. He is Associate Editor of one monograph and contributing author to another.
Research Direction:Medicine and related disciplines.
Email:75084565@qq.com
(12) Lai Xingqiang, Ph.D. in Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine
Associate Researcher, Master's Supervisor. Currently serves as Principal Investigator (PI) at the Institute of Maternal-Fetal Medicine. His research focuses on stem cell differentiation mechanisms and cell and gene therapy. He has led 1 NSFC project and 4 provincial and municipal-level projects. As first author (including co-authorship), he has published multiple SCI papers in journals including Cell Res, Nat Commun, and Cell Death Dis. He has been recognized as a "Shenzhen High-Level Talent (Reserve)" and a "Futian Talent."
Research Directions:
Directed differentiation of pluripotent stem cells
Development of disease cell/animal models and cell and gene therapy technologies
Email:laixq11@163.com
(13) Zhou Ping, M.M. (Master of Medicine)
Chief Physician, Master's Supervisor. He serves as Head of the Neonatology Ward at Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital. He is a Youth Committee Member of the Neonatology Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association, Vice Chair of the Neonatology Committee of the Guangdong Clinical Medicine Association, and Standing Committee Member of the Perinatal Medicine Branch of the Guangdong Medical Doctor Association. He has led 2 projects funded by the Guangdong Medical Science and Technology Research Fund, 1 project on Maternal and Child Nutrition and Health funded by the Maternal and Child Health Center of the National Health Commission, and 4 projects funded by the Municipal Health Commission and District Science and Technology Innovation Bureau, with cumulative funding of 230,000 RMB. In the past three years, as corresponding author or first author, he has published 7 SCI papers.
Research Directions:
Digestion and nutrition in preterm infants
Microbiome analysis and mechanisms of related diseases
Email:xianggalao@126.com
(14) Jin Ping, MD
Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) of Shenzhen Bao'an District Maternal and Child Health Hospital, Chief Physician and Master's Supervisor.She serves as a member of the 1st Youth Committee of the Emergency Medicine Group, Pediatric Society of the Chinese Medical Association; a national committee member of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Group under the 5th Committee of the Pediatric Physicians Branch of the Chinese Medical Doctor Association; and Vice Chairman of the 1st Committee of the Pediatric Critical Care Physicians Branch of Guangdong Medical Doctor Association.
She has presided over and participated in a number of research projects funded by the Department of Science and Technology of Guangdong Province, Guangdong Medical Research Fund, Shenzhen Science and Technology Innovation Commission, and Shenzhen Health Commission, with a total research grant of 700,000 yuan.Invited by the Chinese Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal, she authored an expert commentary published in 2025, Volume 32, Issue 1. As the corresponding author, she has published one SCI paper in Expert Rev Vaccines (Q2 Journal, Impact Factor: 5.5).
Master Admission Research Directions
Basic and applied research on tetrahedral framework nucleic acid technology in pediatric severe neurological brain injury
Research on precise management of analgesia and sedation in critically ill children guided by facial micro-expression image recognition
Research Group Contact Email: yanyanab2004@aliyun.com
(15) Wang Huilin, Ph.D.
Graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Associate Researcher, Master's Supervisor, Deputy Director of the Central Lab. He serves as Standing Committee Member of the Birth Defects Prevention and Control Committee of the Guangdong Preventive Medicine Association, Vice Chair of the Youth Committee of the Medical Genetics Branch of the Guangdong Medical Association, Standing Committee Member of the Medical Genetics Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association, and Committee Member and Academic Secretary of the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Branch of the Shenzhen Medical Association. He has led 1 General Project of the NSFC and served as sub-project lead for 2 National Key R&D Programs of China. As first author or corresponding author, he has published over 20 SCI papers in journals including Cell, Genet Med, and Clin Chem.
Research Directions:
Genetic mechanisms of neural tube defects
Molecular mechanisms of congenital abnormalities of the kidney and urinary tract (CAKUT)
Clinical application of chromosome sequencing technologies in patients with congenital malformations
Email:wang_huilin@126.com
III. Compensation and Policy Support
Salary and living allowance: RMB 380,000 – 580,000 per year, based on individual academic achievements.
Housing subsidy: RMB 2,800 per month.
Postdoctoral fellows may apply for research grants at all levels as Principal Investigators.
Research start-up funding from the hospital is provided.
Research achievement rewards are available.
Outstanding fellows may be优先 hired by the hospital for clinical or research work after completing their postdoctoral term.
Fellows who remain in Shenzhen for work after completing the postdoctoral term and sign a labor contract of three years or more may apply for a Shenzhen Postdoctoral Outgoing Stay Subsidy of RMB 360,000.
Eligible fellows may receive assistance in applying for additional funding or awards from Shenzhen Municipality and Guangdong Province, subject to the most current policies announced by relevant provincial and municipal authorities.
IV. How to Apply
Applications are accepted via email. Candidates shall select an appropriate supervisor based on their research direction, and send their curriculum vitae and supporting materials to the respective research group's email address. The application package should be named in the format: "Applicant Name + Postdoctoral Application under Supervisor [Name]". A copy of the application package shall also be sent to the hospital's Human Resources Office at: bafby3309@126.com
Human Resources Contact:Ms. Huang, Mr. Wang
Tel.:0755-27808176
This recruitment is effective as of the date of issuance and will remain open until all positions are filled.
We welcome outstanding young talents dedicated to scientific research and innovation to join the research groups of our supervisors and work together to achieve excellence in research!
Shenzhen Bao'an Women's and Children's Hospital
November 14, 2025