Fan Fan Hou
China
Pioneer Award: North & East Asia
The ISN Pioneer Awards, restricted to individuals from non-high-income countries, honor the ‘unsung heroes’ of nephrology: doctors who have made extraordinary efforts to advance nephrology in a specific country or region.
Professor Fan Fan Hou is a professor of medicine at the Southern Medical University and chief of the renal division at the Nanfang Hospital in Guangzhou, China. She is director of the National Clinical Research Center for Kidney Disease and the State Key Laboratory of Organ Failure Research. Professor Hou was elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2009. She served as an ISN council member from 2017-2021, chair of the ISN North and East Asia Regional Board (2019-2021), and executive committee member of KDIGO (2019-2022).
Professor Hou has published hundreds of papers in world-renowned, peer-reviewed journals such as N Engl J Med, JAMA, JAMA Intern Med, Nat Med, Kidney Int, and J Am Soc Nephrol. She won the Asian Pacific Society of Nephrology Young Investigator Award in 1992 and the first prize medal for ISN Fellows in 2001.
Professor Hou states, “I am honored to be awarded the ISN Pioneer Award. I was once an ISN Fellow being trained at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. The fellowship training greatly enriched my knowledge and expanded my professional career. I will dedicate the rest of my life to better serving my patients and the society.”
Professor Hou will receive the 2025 Pioneer Award for North and East Asia at a regional meeting in 2025.