Work Experience
Dr. Zheng graduated from Shanghai Medical School Fudan University in 2008 with a master degree in Clinical Cardiology, and then got her MPH from Emory University in 2010 and PhD in Epidemiology from University of Texas School of Public Health in 2013. She had her postdoctoral training in Department of Nutrition, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, from 2014 to 2017. In July 2017, Dr. Zheng joined the School of Life Sciences Fudan University as a Principle Investigator.
Research Interests
My research interest is focused on the role of diet and lifestyle factors in the development of cardiometabolic disease, such as obesity, diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which is a leading cause of death in the United States and world wide. In particular, I am interested in utilizing circulating metabolomic profile to explore the potential mechanism underlying the exposure-disease association. My research area also includes gene-diet interaction and Mendelian randomization studies in the cardiometabolic disease.
Selected Publications
1、Yan Zheng, JoAnn E. Manson, Changzheng Yuan, Matthew H. Liang, Francine Grodstein, Meir J. Stampfer, Walter C. Willett, and Frank B. Hu. Associations of weight gain from early to middle adulthood with major health outcomes in later life. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). 2017;318(3):255-269. (Impact Factor: 48.16)
2、Yan Zheng, Sylvia H. Ley, and Frank B. Hu. Global aetiology and epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its complications.Nature Reviews Endocrinology. 2018 Feb;14(2):88-98 (Impact Factor: 24.57)
3、Yan Zheng, Yanping Li, Ambika Satija, An Pan, Mercedes Sotos-Prieto, Eric Rimm, Walter C. Willett, and Frank B. Hu. Association of Changes in Red Meat Consumption with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality Among U.S. Women and Men: Two Large Prospective Cohort Studies. The BMJ. 2019 Jun 12;365:l2110. 2 (Impact Factor:27.16)
4、Kang Yao, Yuxiang Dai, Juan Shen, Yi Wang, Li Jin, …, Shangyu Hong#, Yan Zheng#, Junbo Ge#. Exome sequencing identifies rare mutations of LDLR and QTRT1 conferring risk for early-onset coronary artery disease in Chinese. National Science Review. 2022(Accepted) (Impact Factor:15.73)
5、Jean-Philippe Drouin-Chartier*#, Yan Zheng*, Yanping Li, Vasanti Malik, An Pan, Shilpa N. Bhupathiraju, Deirdre K. Tobias, JoAnn E. Manson, Walter C. Willett, and Frank B. Hu#. Changes in Consumption of Sugary Beverages and Artificially Sweetened Beverages and Subsequent Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Results from Three Large Prospective U.S. Cohorts of Women and Men. Diabetes Care. 2019 Oct. 42(12): 2181-2189. (Impact Factor:14.90)
