Qingang Hu received his BS from Nanjing Medical University in 1982, and MS and Ph.D. from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine in 1988 and 1996, respectively. From 1991 to 1992, he worked as a visiting scholar in the University of Tübingen (Germany). In 2000, he was appointed as an associate professor at the Medical School of Nanjing University, and later promoted to professor in 2008. His research interests include clinical and basic research of oral and maxillofacial tumors and defect reconstruction.