Academic Profiles
Research Scientist

Jun Li

Research Scientist

Nutrition

junli@hsph.harvard.edu

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Overview

Dr. Jun Li is a research scientist in Departments of Nutrition and Epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (HSPH). The main area of her research focuses on the identification of risk factors for prevention of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and cardiovascular disease (CVD), with particular interest and skills on high-dimensional omics research.

Dr. Li is currently leading several projects identifying genomic, metabolomic, dietary, and lifestyle risk factors for T2D and CVD in the Nurses' Health Studies (NHS), Health Professional Follow-up Study, PREDIMED study, Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos, and the UK Biobank. Her research interests also extend to the new area of systems epidemiology and multi-omics integration. She is adopting new methodologies to integrate multi-omics data (including genetics, epigenetics, metabolomics, and gut microbiome) for the interpretation of disease etiology and identification of mechanisms through which diet/lifestyle factors impact cardiometabolic health.

MD, 06/2011, Preventive Medicine
Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

PhD, 06/2016, Cardiovascular Epidemiology and Environmental Health
School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

The Bernard Lown Scholarship in Cardiovascular Health Program
Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health

Best Young Investigators
The Lancet-CAMS Health Summit 2015

The Postdoc Association Travel Award
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Jeremiah and Rose Stamler Research Award winner
American Heart Association

The Barry R. and Irene Tilenius Bloom Fellowship Award
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Scott Grundy Fellowship Award for Excellence in Metabolism Research
American Heart Association

Bibliography

Dairy consumption, plasma metabolites, and risk of type 2 diabetes.

Drouin-Chartier JP, Hernández-Alonso P, Guasch-Ferré M, Ruiz-Canela M, Li J, Wittenbecher C, Razquin C, Toledo E, Dennis C, Corella D, Estruch R, Fitó M, Eliassen AH, Tobias DK, Ascherio A, Mucci LA, Rexrode KM, Karlson EW, Costenbader KH, Fuchs CS, Liang L, Clish CB, Martínez-González MA, Salas-Salvadó J, Hu FB.

Am J Clin Nutr. 2021 07 01. 114(1):163-174. PMID: 33742198

Host and gut microbial tryptophan metabolism and type 2 diabetes: an integrative analysis of host genetics, diet, gut microbiome and circulating metabolites in cohort studies.

Qi Q, Li J, Yu B, Moon JY, Chai JC, Merino J, Hu J, Ruiz-Canela M, Rebholz C, Wang Z, Usyk M, Chen GC, Porneala BC, Wang W, Nguyen NQ, Feofanova EV, Grove ML, Wang TJ, Gerszten RE, Dupuis J, Salas-Salvadó J, Bao W, Perkins DL, Daviglus ML, Thyagarajan B, Cai J, Wang T, Manson JE, Martínez-González MA, Selvin E, Rexrode KM, Clish CB, Hu FB, Meigs JB, Knight R, Burk RD, Boerwinkle E, Kaplan RC.

Gut. 2021 Jun 14. PMID: 34127525