Asia Oceania Human Proteome Organisation

Executive Council

AOHUPO is led by an Executive Council (EC) elected by member society representatives for a three-year term.
The EC is responsible for the strategic direction, governance, and activities of the organisation.

oUr mission

national member societies

2026 Executive Council

Yasushi Ishihama

President
Kyoto University,
Japan

Ping Xu

Vice-President
Beijing Institute of Lifeomics,
China

Teck Yew Low

Vice-President
National University of Malaysia,
Malaysia

Kyung-Gon Kim

Secretary General
Asan Medical Center,
South Korea

Terence Poon

Immediate Past-President
University of Macau,
Macau

Mark Molloy

Treasurer
University of Sydney,
Australia

Gus Grey

Publication Editor
University of Auckland,
New Zealand

Advisers

Yu-Ju Chen

Academia Sinica,
Taiwan

Ho Jeong Kwon

Yonsei University,
Korea

Council members by country

Chien-Sheng (Jason) Chen

Department of Food Safety / Hygiene and Risk Management, National Cheng Kung University, College of Medicine

Taiwan

Nobuaki Takemori

Advanced Research Support Center, Ehime University

Japan

Shantanu Sengupta

CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology
New Delhi

India

Chantragan Phiphobmongkol Srisomsap

Laboratory of Biochemistry, Chulabhorn Research Institute
Bangkok

Thailand

Xiaobo Yu

State Key Laboratory of Proteomics, Beijing Proteome Research Center, National Center for Protein Sciences, Beijing Institute of Lifeomics
Beijing

China

Zehra Manzoor

Dr. Zafar H. Zaidi Center for Proteomics, University of Karachi
Karachi

Pakistan

Kazuyuki Nakamura

Professor Emeritus, Yamaguchi University
Advisor & Director of Clinical Chemistry Department, Tokuyama Medical Association Hospital, Shunan-shi
Yamaguchi

Japan

Honourable member

Young-Ki Paik

Yonsei Proteome Research Center, Yonsei University, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu
Seoul

Korea

Honourable member

Richard Simpson

Distinguished Professor
Department of Biochemistry and Genetics, La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS), La Trobe University
Melbourne, Victoria

Australia

Honourable member

Max C.M. Chung

Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore

Singapore

Honourable member

Ho Jeong Kwon

Department of Biotechnology, College of Life Science & Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu
Seoul

Korea

Honourable member

Past presidents

Richard Simpson (Australia)
Young-Ki Paik (Korea)
Kazuyuki Nakamura (Japan)
Fuchu He (China)
Max C.M. Chung (Singapore)
Ho Jeong Kwon (Korea)
Terence Poon (Macau)

Governance documents

Read the AOHUPO bylaws