Dr. Dongdong Yu is currently an Associate Professor and Master’s Supervisor at Henan University of Chinese Medicine. He graduated from a renowned university of traditional Chinese medicine and received his doctoral degree in Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Tuina. As an outstanding young leader in the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional acupuncture therapies, he currently serves as Deputy Director of the Teaching and Research Office of Basic Acupuncture at the School of Acupuncture, Moxibustion and Tuina, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, and has been selected for the highly regarded “Young Backbone Teacher Training Program of Henan Provincial Higher Education Institutions.” Dr. Yu has long been committed to the inheritance and innovation of traditional acupuncture schools. As a core member of the Henan Shao’s Acupuncture School Inheritance Studio, he plays an important role in elite medical education and the training of grassroots acupuncture professionals. With a solid academic foundation and a proactive research attitude, he actively promotes the scientific interpretation and clinical translation of traditional medical therapies with distinctive Central Plains characteristics within the context of modern multidisciplinary integration.
As an interdisciplinary scholar deeply engaged in acupuncture clinical practice and translational medical research, Dr. Yu has demonstrated outstanding expertise in the clinical application and mechanistic exploration of external therapies in traditional Chinese medicine. His research and clinical practice focus extensively on the use of diverse traditional therapeutic approaches, including acupuncture, acupoint catgut embedding, fire needling, and finger acupuncture. He has accumulated substantial clinical experience in the precise treatment of neck, shoulder, waist, and leg pain, gynecological diseases, and digestive system disorders, as well as in acupuncture-based toxicity reduction and efficacy enhancement for adverse effects induced by modern tumor radiotherapy and chemotherapy. In the academic and professional publishing communities, Dr. Yu is also highly active. He currently serves as a member of the Youth Professional Committee, the Preventive Treatment of Disease Committee, and the Acupoint Catgut Embedding Committee of the China Association of Acupuncture and Moxibustion. He has also been invited to serve as a young editorial board member of the national core academic journal Acupuncture Research, thereby building an active bridge for young scholars within the global acupuncture academic community.
In scientific research and academic output, Dr. Yu has achieved substantial accomplishments and gained broad recognition from his peers. As principal investigator, he has led several key research projects, including a Young Scientists Fund project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China and projects funded by the Henan Provincial Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has also participated as a key research member in more than ten major national, provincial, and ministerial-level research projects. As a productive young scientist, he has published more than 20 academic papers in high-level professional journals in China and abroad, and has served as editor-in-chief or core contributor to two academic books and textbooks. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to theoretical innovation and clinical research in acupuncture, he has received multiple provincial, ministerial, departmental, and bureau-level awards for scientific and technological achievements, including the First Prize for Excellent Academic Papers in Natural Sciences of Henan Province and the Second Prize for Excellent Scientific and Technological Papers of the Henan Provincial Department of Education.