Yimin Zhu，Ph.D, & Professor, vice director of Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Zhejiang University.

  My major research interests include molecular epidemiology, genetic susceptibility, epigenetics and metabonomics in obesity, metabolic syndrome and colorectal cancer. My team has screened multiple biomarkers of these diseases using multi-omics technologies such GWAS, RNA-seq, Medip-seq and metabonomic, and also systematically investigated the metabolic heterogeneity in obesity and its mid and long-term adverse effect. The ongoing projects include natural population cohort in Zhejiang Province (a sub-cohort of East-China Cohort), the metabonomics in metabolic syndrome, the abnormal metabolic status and its long-term effect in subjects with normal weight, DNA methylation and biomarker screening in colorectal cancer.