Dr. Qin is Professor and Director of Musculoskeletal Research Laboratory in the Department of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (www.ort.cuhk.edu.hk). Dr. Qin also holds joint professorship in Shenzhen Institutes of Advance Technology (SIAT) of Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and serves Director of the Translational Medicine Research & Development Center of Institute of Biomedical & Health Engineering of SIAT (www.siat.cas.cn). He obtained his Ph.D. in Cologne Germany in 1992 and then postdoc in AO-Research Institute, Davos, Switzerland and research scientist in Charite Medical University, Berlin, Germany, before joining CUHK in late 1994.  
Dr. Qin has been working on advanced diagnosis, prevention and treatment of bone metabolic disorders, especially osteoporosis and osteonecrosis, in collaboration with research and clinical scientists in medicine, geriatrics, rheumatologists, traditional medicine, and biomaterials. Dr. Qin is the past President of the International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS) (www.icmrs.net) and member of a number of journal editorial boards, including Editor-in-chief of Journal of Orthopaedic Translation (http://ees.elsevier.com/jot); Associate Editor of Clinical Biomechanics and Chinese Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery; editorial member of a number of international journals, including Journal of Bone and Mineral Research (www.jbmr.org) and International Journal of Sports Medicine (http://www.thieme.de/sportsmed). He holds memberships in several international and national orthopaedic and related research organizations, including college fellow of American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (http://www.aimbe.org) and ICORS International College of Fellows/Fellow of International Orthopaedic Research (http://i-cors.org/events). As Principle Investigator, Dr. Qin has received over 30 competitive research grants (including TRS, CRF, GRF, ITF, HMRF, NSFC-RGC, and EU-NSFC, 12.5 and 13.5 Key R&D projects of the MOST) and over 30 research awards. Dr. Qin also holds 10 new invention or new utility patents.
Dr. Qin published 9 monographs as editor or associate editor, 5 conference proceedings, 90 book chapters, over 400 journal papers in English, German, and Chinese, including 320 SCI articles published in Nat Med, JBMR, Osteoporosis Int, Bone, A&R, Biomaterials, Acta Biomaterialia, Am J Sports Med, Int J Sports Med, etc. with citation around 6500 and a H-index of 44.