Areas of Focus
- Molecular epidemiology of tumors
- Genetic and etiological research on pancreatic cancer
- Gene-environment interactions
- Multi-omics data integration analysis
Work Experience
- 2019.7 - 2021.8 Postdoctoral Researcher at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, School of Public Health
- 2021.9 - Present Associate Researcher at Wuhan University, School of Public Health
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2009-2014 Bachelor's Degree in Preventive Medicine: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
- 2014-2019 PhD in Epidemiology and Health Statistics: Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Publications
- A genetic variant conferred high expression of CAV2 promotes pancreatic cancer progression and associates with poor prognosis, Zhu Y; Tian J; Peng X; et al., 2021
- Systematic analysis on expression quantitative trait loci identifies a novel regulatory variant in ring finger and WD repeat domain 3 associated with prognosis of pancreatic cancer, Zhu Y; Peng X; Wang X; et al.
- Pan-cancer analysis of microbiome quantitative trait loci, Chen C; Cai Y; ... ; Yang X*; Zhu Y*; Tian J*
- N6-methyladenosine mRNA methylation of PIK3CB regulates AKT signalling to promote PTEN-deficient pancreatic cancer progression, Tian J; Zhu Y; Rao M; et al., 2020
- A genetic variant in PIK3R1 is associated with pancreatic cancer survival in the Chinese population, Zhu Y; Ke J; Gong Y; et al., 2019
- Exome-wide analysis identifies three low-frequency missense variants associated with pancreatic cancer risk in Chinese populations, Chang J; Tian J; Zhu Y; et al., 2018