Work Experience
Dr. Chen graduated from Shandong University in 2006 with a B.S. in Preventive Medicine and in 2009 with a M.S. in Epidemiology, and then obtained Ph.D. in Genetics from Fudan University in 2012. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Karolinska Institute in Sweden from 2013 to 2015 and at Fudan University from 2016 to 2019. Dr. Chen joined Fudan University Taizhou Institute of Health Sciences as a vice director since 2015. He had successively served as peer reviewer of several Journals, such as International Journal of epidemiology, Alzheimer’s & Dementia, and International Journal of cancer.
Dr. Chen is responsible for the daily operation, scientific research design, External cooperation and management of biobank and databases of the Taizhou Longitudinal Study (TZL), and carried on epidemiological and phenotypic studies based on the cohort resources for. He served as PI in several scientific research projects, such as the National Key R&D Projects, the National Natural Science Foundation of China, 863 Program, Ministry of Science and Technology, Science and Technology Projects of Jiangsu Province and Shanghai City, with a total of nearly 20 million research funds.
Research Interests
With research field focusing on Cohort construction, Molecular Epidemiology and Genetics of chronic diseases, Dr. Chen is fully in charge of the operation of Taizhou Longitudinal Study, involving all the scientific collaborations and data sharing.
Selected Publications
1. Zhenqiu Liu, Yanfeng Jiang, Huangbo Yuan, Qiwen Fang, Ning Cai, Chen Suo, Li Jin, Tiejun Zhang,Xingdong Chen. 2019. The trends in incidence of primary liver cancer caused by specific etiologies: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study.Journal of Hepatology. 70:674-683.
2. Chen Suo, Yajun Yang, Ziyu Yuan, Tiejun Zhang, Xiaorong Yang, Tao Qing, Pei Gao, Leming Shi, Min Fan, Hongwei Cheng, Ming Lu, Li Jin,Xingdong Chen, Weimin Ye. 2019. Alcohol Intake Interacts with Functional Genetic Polymorphisms of Aldehyde Dehydrogenases (ALDH2) and Alcohol Dehydrogenase (ADH) to Increase Esophageal Squamous Cell Cancer Risk.Journal of Thoracic Oncology. 14(4): 712-725.
3.Xingdong Chen, Ziyu Yuan, Ming Lu, Yuechan Zhang, Li Jin, Weimin Ye. 2017. Poor oral health is associated with an increased risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma – a population-based case-control study in China.International Journal of Cancer. 140(3): 626-35.
4. Zhenqiu Liu, Chunqing Lin, Lina Mu, Chen Suo, Weimin Ye, Li Jin, Silvia Franceschi, Tiejun Zhang,Xingdong Chen. 2019. The disparities in gastrointestinal cancer incidence among Chinese populations in Shanghai compared to Chinese immigrants and indigenous non-Hispanic white populations in Los Angeles, USA.International Journal of Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jtho.2018.12.023
5. Zhenqiu Liu, Qin Yang, Ning Cai, Li Jin, Tiejun Zhang,Xingdong Chen. 2019. Enigmatic gender difference in cancer incidence: evidences from childhood cancers.American Journal of Epidemiology. kwz058, https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwz058.
