Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

* weisheng@mails.tjmu.edu.cn

Academic Areas

Nutrition Epidemiology / Chronic Disease Epidemiology

Research Interests

Biomarkers in Cancer risk and prognosis

Food safety assessment

Burden of disease for food containment

Courses Taught

Principles and Methods of Epidemiology Studies / Field Epidemiology / Clinical Epidemiology / Epidemiology

Education

2008-2011        Postdoctoral Fellow, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Texas

2003-2006       Ph.D, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

1999-2002        M.S, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

1990-1995         B.S., Tongji Medical College, Wuhan, China

Professional/working Experience

2017-present    Professor, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

2011-present    Chair, School of Public Health, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

2011-2017         Associate Professor, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

2002-2011        Lecturer, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

1995-1999         Teaching Assistant, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China

Past and ongoing projects, funding, programs

Principal Investigator, The key technology for burden of diseasefor food containment (NationalKey Basic Research Program of China, 2018YFC1603105), 2018-2020, RMB2,400,000 Yuan

Principal Investigator, The Study for the association between long non-coding RNA and lung cancer risk (NFSC, 2018-2021), RMB500,000 Yuan

Select Publications

Books, Patents

1.         Field Epidemiology, People health press, 2017

Journal Article

Corresponding author

1.       Wang K, Yu X, Jiang H, Huang J, Wang H, Jiang H, Wei S, Liu L. Genome-wide expression profiling-based copy number variations and colorectal cancer risk in Chinese.Mol Carcinog. 2019;58(7):1324-1333. doi: 10.1002/mc.23015.

2.      Wang Q, Wei S*. Cadmium affects blood pressure and negatively interacts with obesity: Findings from NHANES 1999-2014. Sci Total Environ. 2018 Dec 1;643:270-276. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.06.105.

3.      Huang J, Liao Q, Ooi MH, Cowling BJ, Chang Z, Wu P, Liu F, Li Y, Luo L, Yu S, Yu H*, Wei S*. Epidemiology of Recurrent Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease, China, 2008-2015. Emerg Infect Dis. 2018 Mar;24(3). doi: 10.3201/eid2403.171303.

4.      Wang K, Bai Y, Chen S, Huang J, Yuan J, Chen W, Yao P, Miao X, Wang Y, Liang Y, Zhang X, He M, Yang H, Guo H, Wei S*. Genetic correction of serum AFP level improves risk prediction of primary hepatocellular carcinoma in the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort study. Cancer Med. 2018;7(6):2691-2698. doi: 10.1002/cam4.1481.

5.      Huang J, Chen S, Wu Y, Tong Y, Wang L, Zhu M, Hu S, Guan X, Wei S*. Quantifying the influence of temperature on hand, foot and mouth disease incidence in Wuhan, Central China. Sci Rep. 2018;8(1):1934. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20318-z.

6.      Guo H, Gao X, Ma R, Liu J, Ding Y, Zhang M, Zhang J, Mu L, He J, Yan Y, Ma J, Guo S*, Wei S*. Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome and its Associated Factors among Multi-ethnic Adults in Rural Areas in Xinjiang, China. Sci Rep. 2017 Dec 15;7(1):17643. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-17870-5.

7.      Wang W, Zhong C, Zhang Y, Huang L, Chen X, Zhou X, Chen R, Li X, Xiao M, Hao L, Yang X, Yang N*, Wei S*. Shorter sleep duration in early pregnancy is associated with birth length: a prospective cohort study in Wuhan, China. Sleep Med. 2017;34:99-104. doi: 10.1016/j.sleep.2017.03.013. 

8.     Wang W, Zhong C, Huang L, Zhou X, Chen R, Wu J, Li X, Xiong T, Liu C, Xiao M, Yang X, Hao L, Yang N*, Wei S*. Prenatal NO2 exposure and ultrasound measures of foetal growth: a prospective cohort study in Wuhan, China. Occup Environ Med. 2017;74(3):204-210. doi: 10.1136/oemed-2016-103980. 

9.      Zhao R, Chen S, Wang W, Huang J, Wang K, Liu L, Wei S*. The impact of short-term exposure to air pollutants on the onset of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Int J Cardiol. 2016;226:110-117. doi: 10.1016/j.ijcard. 2016.10.053.

10.        Yin J, Li Y, Zhao H, Qin Q, Li X, Huang J, Shi Y, Gong S, Liu L, Fu X, Nie S, Wei S*.  Copy-number variation of MCL1 predicts overall survival of non-small-cell lung cancer in a Southern Chinese population. Cancer Med. 2016;5(9):2171-9. doi: 10.1002/cam4.774.