Huan Yun

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

2022 – present: postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). Prior to joining Dr. Liang’s lab, Huan obtained her Ph.D. degree in nutritional epidemiology from Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences under the supervision of Prof. Xu Lin. Her research focuses on identifying genetic, epigenetic and biomedical risk factors related to type 2 diabetes, hypertension, and other cardiovascular diseases. Her work will leverage multi-omics data, especially metabolomics, to identify novel dietary biomarkers and to explore the underlying mechanisms of diet/lifestyle on metabolic health.