Yimin Zhu, Ph.D, & Professor, vice director of Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed scientific articles. His major research interests include molecular epidemiology, genetic susceptibility, epigenetics and metabonomics in obesity, metabolic syndrome. His team has screened multiple biomarkers of these diseases using multi-omics technologies such GWAS, RNA-seq, Medip-seq and metabonomic, and also systematically investigated the metabolic heterogeneity in obesity and its mid and long-term adverse effect.

Research Interest:

His major research interests include molecular epidemiology, genetic susceptibility, epigenetics and metabonomics in obesity, metabolic syndrome.