Professor Hong Meng is an internationally recognized expert in traditional Chinese medicine dermatology, a scholar in cosmetics science and engineering, and the founder of the theoretical system of “skin health cultivation.” She currently serves as Director of the Key Laboratory of Cosmetic, China National Light Industry, Professor at the College of Chemistry and Materials Engineering, Beijing Technology and Business University, Chief Physician at the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, and Professor at the China Beijing International Training Center of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Traditional Medicine. As a strategic scientist who successfully bridges clinical medicine, traditional medicine, and modern chemical engineering, Professor Meng enjoys a distinguished academic reputation in the international personal care and skin health industry. She currently serves as a member of the Asia-Pacific Cosmetics Expert Cooperation Organization for Personal Care Products, Vice Chair of the Skin Health Cultivation Professional Committee of the Beijing Daily Chemical Industry Association, Council Member of the Traditional Chinese Medicine Cosmetology Branch of the China Association of Chinese Medicine, Expert Committee Member of the Chinese Dietary Therapy and Health Cultivation Professional Committee, and Committee Member of the Medical Cosmetology Professional Committee of the Beijing Association of Integrative Medicine. With more than two decades of frontline clinical experience in clinical medicine and traditional medicine, she has organically integrated advanced cosmetics engineering technologies with clinical dermatology, making landmark contributions to the scientific development and internationalization of green plant-based, especially Chinese medicine-based, cosmetics.
As an interdisciplinary frontier leader who deeply reconstructs the holistic perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, modern skin physiology, and imaging biology, Professor Meng’s research focuses on the creation and development of plant-based and Chinese medicine-based cosmetics, the construction of big data on the native skin state of Chinese populations, and comprehensive cross-disciplinary evaluation of clinical efficacy. With strong cross-sector innovation insight, she was among the first in academia to creatively propose the scientific concept of “skin health cultivation,” and systematically established the theoretical frameworks of “constitution-based beauty cultivation” and “scalp health cultivation.” To bring traditional herbal skincare into the era of evidence-based science, she pioneered the research direction of “skin medical health cultivation technology.” Using advanced imaging systems such as reflectance confocal microscopy, also known as skin CT, and laser Doppler blood perfusion imaging, she has precisely deconstructed the dynamic native state and deep physiological needs of Chinese skin from the surface to the deeper layers. At the same time, she is leading efforts to establish a strategically valuable “Chinese Skin Native State Database,” aiming to provide irreplaceable foundational scientific support and data navigation for the global development of health foods, medicated diets, and high-end cosmetics precisely suited to Chinese populations.
With decades of dedication to skin health and functional plant-based chemical engineering, Professor Meng has achieved remarkable accomplishments in landmark academic publishing, core standard development, and clinical translation. She is particularly skilled in using traditional Chinese medicine approaches to address skin health challenges in highly vulnerable and special populations, including individuals with sensitive skin or acne, as well as infants, children, pregnant women, and postpartum women. In academic output, she has published more than 50 high-quality papers in mainstream and core professional journals in China and abroad, with research covering multiple frontier subfields such as whitening and freckle reduction, deep moisturization, cellular anti-aging, and scalp microecological care. As a widely recognized thought leader in the industry, she has edited and authored six core academic works with strong sectoral influence, including Skin Health Cultivation Technology, Research and Application of the Native Skin State, and Herbal Cosmeceuticals. Professor Meng has successfully transformed the Eastern wisdom of traditional Chinese medicine into a quantifiable and reproducible modern skin science paradigm, continuously guiding innovation in the global medicine-food homology and plant-based micro-efficacy industries.