Education:

1978-1983: Clinical Medicine program, Wenzhou Medical College

1983-1998: Master Degree in Ophthalmology, Wenzhou Medical College

2002: Honorary Doctorate Degree, New England College of Optometry

2013: Honorary Doctorate Degree, State University of New York

Work experience:

1998: Director of Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University

2002-2015: President and Deputy Party Secretary of Wenzhou Medical University (2002.05-2013.06 Dean of Wenzhou Medical College)

2018-2023: Chief Director, Eye Hospital, School of Ophthalmology & Optometry, Wenzhou Medical University;

2018-present: Director of Eye Hospitals Group, WMU; Chairman of Eye Valley @China

2021-present: Director of Eye Disease and Visual Function Rehabilitation Research Cluster at Oujiang Laboratory

1. Basic research and clinical research on the pathogenesis and treatment of major eye diseases, with a particular focus on myopia.
2. Interventions for myopia coontrol and prevention.

China's national “973” project (as Chief Scientist).
Key projects funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China. 

Photoinduced synthesis of 2-substituted benzimidazoles as effective ophthalmology drugs mediated by new heterojunction Fe3O4/ZnO

Inhibition of the rapamycin-insensitive mTORC1 /4E-BP1 axis attenuates TGF-β1-induced fibrotic response in human Tenon's fibroblasts

Degradation of Photopic and Mesopic Contrast Sensitivity Function in High Myopes With Partial Posterior Vitreous Detachment

The influence of eyelid pressure and eye contour factors on rigid corneal contact lens fitting

Reduced contrast sensitivity function is correlated with changes to cone photoreceptors in simple high myopia

Protocol for detecting rare and common genetic associations in whole-exome sequencing studies using MAGICpipeline

Prof. Jia Qu was awarded the Second-Class Prizes of the State Scientific and Technological Progress Award (both ranked first) twice, the Science and Technology Awards by the Ho Leung Ho Lee (HLHL) Foundation (2018), the Tan Jiazhen Life Science Award for Clinical Medicine (2018), and a number of provincial science awards. He has been listed in Chinese Highly Cited Scholars (Clinical medicine) by Elsevier for many consecutive years with a high H-factor. He is also the founder and the Chief Editor of the Journal Eye and Vision and Chinese Journal of Optometry, Ophthalmology and Visual Science. Prof Jia Qu’s publications also include 21 national guided planning teaching materials. Among which, the publication of Ophthalmology has won the First National Excellent Textbook Award. He was also a three-time awardee of the 2nd prize of the National Teaching Achievement Award.

Prof. Jia Qu serves as the director of the Research Cluster of Eye Diseases and Visual Function Rehabilitations where 5 double-employed PIs and 4 full-time PIs engaged in scientific research.