MRC Epidemiology UnitNutritional Epidemiology
Left the Unit in August 2018
Work and interests
Ju-Sheng was a Research Associate within the Nutritional Epidemiology programme. He was also a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellow supported by the European Commission (2016-2018).
The major interests of his current research are 1) genetic and dietary determinants of nutritional biomarkers, such as plasma fatty acids, circulating 25(OH)D, vitamin C and carotinoids; and the associations of the nutritional biomarkers with metabolic markers and type 2 diabetes. 2) prenatal risk factors and early infant feeding practice with growth pattern and adiposity in Chinese children.
Ju-Sheng completed his PhD degree in nutrition at Zhejiang University (Hangzhou, China). Within his PhD programme, he received one year’s training in the Nutrition and Genomics Lab at Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in the USA, where he worked on the project of gene-nutrient interaction on diabetes traits.
Publications
Selected publications
- Zheng JS, et al. Association between plasma phospholipid saturated fatty acids and metabolic markers of lipid, hepatic, inflammation and glycaemic pathways in eight European countries: a cross-sectional analysis in the EPIC-InterAct study. BMC Medicine 2017, 15(1):203.
- Zheng JS, et al. Maternal blood pressure rise during pregnancy and offspring obesity risk at 4-7 years old: the Jiaxing Birth Cohort. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2017, 102(11):4315-22.
- Zheng JS, et al. Circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D, IRS1 variant rs2943641 and insulin resistance: replication of a gene-nutrient interaction in four populations of different ancestries. Clinical Chemistry 2014, 60(1):186-96.
- Zheng JS, et al. Modulation by dietary fat and carbohydrate of IRS1 association with type 2 diabetes traits in two populations of different ancestries. Diabetes Care 2013, 36(9):2621-7.
- Zheng JS, et al. Intake of fish and marine n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids and risk of breast cancer: meta-analysis of data from 21 independent prospective cohort studies. British Medical Journal 2013, 346:f3706
Selected awards:
- DSM Science & Technology Award Asia 2015
- Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship 2016-2018