Ping Hu

R&D Director & Principal Scientist Procter & Gamble

Ping Hu is the computational biology capability leader, principal scientist of the Procter & Gamble Company Corporate Function Bioscience Department. Ping has worked on variety of the microbial related projects covering industrial microbial contamination detection, probiotic products development, metagenomics and meta-transcriptomics understanding of skin, oral, baby, feminine, fabric, build environment microbial communities. Ping also has experience in human clinical, genetics and expressional data analysis, developing artificial intelligent enabled bio-digital applications and database systems. Recently Ping is leading an effort to explore new sequencing-based capability and their usage on the microbial detection, quality control and risk accessing evaluating technologies from Nanopore, PacBio, etc.

Seminars

Thursday 29th January 2026
Harnessing Microbial Insights for Innovative Consumer Product Development
3:30 pm
  • Explore the complex interactions within the human microbiome and how these dynamics influence health and product efficacy in multiple areas including skin and oral care
  • Discuss the integration of multiomics technologies, such as RNASeq and metagenomics, proteomics to uncover the mechanisms of microbial response to therapeutic ingredients
  • Illustrate case studies from Procter & Gamble that demonstrate how microbiome research translates into actionable strategies for consumer product development, emphasising the role of biomarkers and mechanistic understanding in driving innovation
Ping Hu