Harvard Catalyst Profiles

Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China	MD	06/2011	Preventive Medicine
School of Public Health, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China	PhD	06/2016	Environmental Health; Epidemiology
Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health, Providence, RI	Visiting Scholar	06/2018	Epidemiology
Brigham and Women’s Hospital; Mass General Hospital; Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA	Postdoctoral Research Fellow	12/2022	Women's Health; Systems epidemiology; Biostatistics

I am an Instructor in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. I am an epidemiologist with medical training committed to conduct research on life-course epidemiology. I have rich research experience in maternal and child health, women’s health, and environmental health.

I am interested the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes and their long-term impact on cardiometabolic health in women and their children. My current research utilizes large-scale, multi-omics data, under the framework of systems epidemiology, to identify novel risk factors and the underlying mechanisms of adverse pregnancy outcomes and cardiometabolic diseases in women, as well as to examine the (epi)genetic and metabolic bases of the intergenerational link in cardiometabolic disease risk. My research also extends to examining the origin and mechanisms of sex and race differences in cardiometabolic disease risk. I am also leading or participating in multiple consortium metabolomics and (epi)genetics projects in the Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed), Cohorts for Heart and Aging Research in Genomic Epidemiology (CHARGE), and COnsortium of METabolomics Studies (COMETS).

• Women's Health
• Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes
• Preeclampsia
• Gestational Hypertension
• Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
• Cardiovascular Disease
• Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
• Children' Health
• Sex Difference
• Sex Hormones
• Metabolomics
• Genetics
• Epigenetics
• Systems Epidemiology
• Environmental Health