Name：Xu Han

Position：Assistant Professor

E-mail：xu.han@szu.edu.cn

Personal Statement:

Dr. Xu Han received her Ph.D. from Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST) in 2017, and then continued postdoctoral training in HUST for two years. In 2019, Dr. Han joined the Shenzhen Institute of Adcanced Technology as a associate researcher. In 2021, Dr. Han joined the College of Public Health of Shenzhen University as an assistant professor.

In the past few decades, people have gradually gained new understanding of the effect of genetic factors and environmental factors on diseases. Dr. Han has long been committed to the study of environmental epidemiology, with special focus on the environmental pollutants and gene-environment interaction. Using epidemiology, advanced statistical analyses, and molecular biology as the main research methods, to investigate the main and interactive effect of genetic and environmental exposure on chronic diseases, and explore the underlying mechanism. Dr. Han has published many papers in high impact academic journals such as Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, British Journal of Nutrition, Diabetes-Metabolism Research and Reviews, etc. as a first or corresponding author.

Research Interests:

Environmental epidemiology

Gene-environment interaction

Molecular epidemiology

Research Projects:

1. NSFC (China) Project (81903289):  01/01/2020 to 12/31/2022  ￥200,000

Natural Science Foundation of Shenzhen Municipality (JCYJ20220531102011027):  1101/2022 to 10/31/2025 ￥300,000

2. The China Postdoctoral Science Funding (2018M630869):  04/01/2018 to 05/31/2019 ￥80,000

Selected Peer-reviewed Publications:

1. Han X, Ziquan Lv, Mei’an He, et al. Effects of Multiple Metals Exposure on Abnormal Liver Function: the Mediating Role of Low-density Lipoprotein Cholesterol. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2024 Apr 3:276:116283.

2. Han X, Wang J, Li Y, Li Y, He M. Cardiometabolic Traits Mediated the Relationship from Early Life Famine Exposure to Adulthood Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Risk. Br J Nutr. 2021 Sep 1;128(2):1-8.

3. Han X, Wang F, Wang J, Li Y, He M. Cardiometabolic Traits Mediate the Association of Past Shift Work and Chronic Kidney Disease: the Dongfeng-Tongji Cohort Study. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 2022 Sep;95(7):1501-1510.

4. Han X, Wei Y, Hu H, Wang J, Li Z, Wang F, Long T, Yuan J, Yao P, Wei S, Wang Y, Zhang X, Guo H, Yang H, Wu T, He M. Genetic risk, a healthy lifestyle, and type 2 diabetes: the Dongfeng-Tongji cohort study. JClin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Apr 1; 105(4)

5. Y Wang, E Zhu, X Zhu, X Li, M He, R Zhai, X Wu, D Hu, Xu Han*. Exposure to Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Risk of Abnormal Liver Function: The Mediating Role of C-reactive protein. Ecotoxicol Environ Saf. 2025, 28: 249-257.