Hong-Wen Deng, Ph. D.

Professor of Medicine and Professor of Biomedical Sciences
Director, Genetics Laboratory
Osteoporosis Research Center
Creighton University Medical Center
Omaha, NE 68131
402-280-5911

Dr. Deng is an internationally recognized scientist in the research fields of bone genetics and deleterious genomic mutation. Since graduation in 1995, he has produced more than 90 original papers, book chapters, and reviews in research fields of molecular genetics, human genetics, population and quantitative genetics, genetic epidemiology, bioinformatics, statistical genetics, and osteoporosis. He and his graduate students won several Young Investigator Awards from various professional societies. He is an associate editor of Genetica, an international journal of genetics and evolution and is on the editorial board of Life Science Research published in China. He is a reviewer for nearly 30 scientific journals, including American Journal of Human Genetics, Genome Research, Genetics, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, Evolution, Nuclear Acid Research, Pharmacogenomics, Bone, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. He is an invited author for review or perspective articles in Current Molecular Medicine, Current Genomics, and Journal of Pharmacogenomics. Dr. Deng reviewed grants for NIH, Natural Environment Research Council of United Kingdom, National Science Foundation of USA, The Welcome Trust, United Kingdom, National Science Foundation of China. Dr. Deng was bestowed an honorable Cheng Kong Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China in 2001. He is the chairman of the Publication Committee of the International Chinese Hard Tissue Society.