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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.

Jack is a research fellow in the Saxena Lab in the Center for Genomic Medicine and Department of Anaesthesia at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He joined my research group as a postdoctoral research fellow in 2020 when he was a research fellow in the Division of Women’s Health at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (PI: Dr. Kathryn Rexrode). Jack obtained his MD from Tongji Medical College and his PhD from the School of Public Health at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China.
Jack has rich research experience in maternal and child health, women’s health, and environmental health. He is interested the etiology of adverse pregnancy outcomes and their long-term impact on cardiometabolic health in women and their children. Jack’s current research utilizes large-scale, multi-omics data, under the framework of systems epidemiology, to identify novel risk factors and the underlying mechanisms of adverse pregnancy outcomes and cardiometabolic diseases in women, as well as to examine the (epi)genetic and metabolic bases of the intergenerational link in cardiometabolic disease risk. His research also extends to study the origin and mechanisms of sex and race differences in cardiometabolic disease risk.