Dr. Jie (Jane) Zhao

2024–2025 Takemi Fellow

Jie (Jane) Zhao, MD, PhD (Hong Kong) is currently an Assistant Professor at School of Public Health, the University of Hong Kong. With trainings in medical science, nutrition and epidemiology, her broad research interest is to understand the aetiology of non-communicable chronic diseases, as well as identifying modifiable targets for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases.

Dr. Zhao has been interested in the effect of endocrine factors in chronic diseases, such as the role of sex hormone binding globulin and testosterone in chronic kidney disease (published in JASN 2021 and BMC Medicine 2020, the latter selected as a featured article of that issue). She is working on the role of dietary factors and medications, such as antihypertensive drugs, as potential targets for prevention and treatment of chronic diseases. She is also coordinating a large elderly cohort in Hong Kong, which includes ~180,000 elderly people across 18 districts in Hong Kong.

Her Takemi Project is titled: Building prediction models for depression based on multi-cohorts with diverse socio-economic conditions in Asia.