Dr. Huang earned his medical degree from Anhui Medical University. He came to the US in 1987 through the CUSBEA program and earned his PhD in Molecular and Cellular Biology from NYU School of Medicine in 1991. He was a Leukemia Society of America Postdoctoral Fellow at NYU and Yale University. He did his residency in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology at NYU and fellowship in Oncologic Surgical Pathology at Memorial Sloan-Kettering cancer center. He became an assistant professor at the University of Rochester in July 2000 and rose to the rank of professor in 2007. Dr. Huang moved to UCLA in 2008 to be Professor of Pathology and later Director of Surgical Pathology. He arrived at Duke at the beginning of 2016 to be Chairman of the Department of Patholog.

Dr. Huang is an internationally renowned surgical pathologist and prostate cancer researcher. His clinical expertise is in the pathologic diagnosis of genitourinary tumors. His research laboratory investigates the molecular mechanisms, biomarkers and novel therapies for prostate cancer. Dr. Huang has published more than 300 publications including those in high impact journals such as Cell, Science and New England Journal of Medicine. His research lab has been continuously funded by federal agencies and private foundations including NCI, DOD, American Cancer Society, Prostate Cancer Foundation, Mike Slive Foundation and Stand Up to Cancer.