Mengying Wang

Assistant Professor, Doctoral supervisor
mywang@bjmu.edu.cn
Xueyuanlu 38., Haidian district, Beijing, China, 100191
Peking University

Personal profile

Mengying Wang, Assistant Professor/Associate Researcher, Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, School of Public Health, Peking University, China. She obtained Bachelor in Nanjing Medical University (2015); obtained Master (2018) and PhD in Peking University (2021); studied at Osaka University, Japan from Oct 2017 to Dec 2017, supported by Campus Asia Program; studied as a visiting scholar in School of Tropical Medicine and Public Health, Tulane University, the USA from 2019 to 2020; conducted postdoctoral research in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Peking University from 2021 to 2023, supported by Postdoctoral Innovation Talents Support Program (BX2021021).

Our research focuses on nutritional epidemiology, based on epidemiological field survey cohorts and large open databases, using molecular/genetic epidemiology methods to explore the impact of nutrition, food and behavioral factors as well as interactions with genetics on health outcomes. Dr. Wang has been as a project leader responsible for the National Natural Science Foundation of China, Beijing Natural Science Foundation, the China Postdoctoral Innovation Talents Support Program Project, and the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, etc. The innovative research results have been published in European Heart Journal, Diabetes Care, International Journal of Epidemiology, European Journal of Nutrition, Chinese Journal of Epidemiology and other top journals.

We are recruiting PhDs and postdoctoral fellows in the following research areas, which are valid all year round, and welcome interested parties to contact us by email.

Main research directions

1. The impact of nutrition, food and behavioral factors on health outcomes;

2. Gene-environment interaction;

3. Diet-related metabolites and health outcomes.

Representative scientific research projects

1. 2023-2025: National Natural Science Foundation of China, 82204135, PI.

2. 2023-2025: Beijing Natural Science Foundation, 7232237, PI.

3. 2021-2023: Postdoctoral Innovation Talents Support Program, BX2021021, PI.

4. 2022-2023: China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2022M710249, PI.

5. 2022-2023: The Open-End Fund of China CDC Key Laboratory of Environment and Population Health, 2022-CKL-02, PI.

10 representative papers

1. Wang M, Zhou T, Song Y, Li X, Ma H, Hu Y, Heianza Y, Qi L. Joint exposure to various ambient air pollutants and incident heart failure: a prospective analysis in UK Biobank. Eur Heart J. 2021:42(16):1582-1591. (IF=35.855）

2. Wang M, Zhou T, Li X, Ma H, Liang Z, Fonseca VA, Heianza Y, Qi L. Baseline Vitamin D Status, Sleep Patterns, and the Risk of Incident Type 2 Diabetes in Data From the UK Biobank Study. Diabetes Care. 2020;43(11):2776-2784. (IF=19.112)

3. Wang M, Huang J, Wu T, Qi L. Arterial Stiffness, Genetic Risk, and Type 2 Diabetes: A Prospective Cohort Study. Diabetes Care. 2022;45(4):957-964. (IF=17.155)

4. Peng H#, Wang M#, Wang S, Wang X, Fan M, Qin X, Wu Y, Chen D, Li J, Hu Y, Wu T. KCNQ1 rs2237892 polymorphism modify the association between short-term ambient particulate matter exposure and fasting blood glucose: A family-based study. Sci Total Environ. 2023;876:162820.

5. Wang M, Zhou T, Song Q, Ma H, Hu Y, Heianza Y, Qi L. Ambient air pollution, healthy diet and vegetable intakes, and mortality: a prospective UK Biobank study. Int J Epidemiol. 2022;51(4):1243-1253.

6. Wang S#, Wang M#, Peng H, Tian Y, Guo H, Wang J, Yu H, Xue E, Chen X, Wang X, Fan M, Zhang Y, Wang X, Qin X, Wu Y, Li J, Ye Y, Chen D, Hu Y, Wu T. Synergism of cell adhesion regulatory genes and instant air pollutants on blood pressure elevation. Chemosphere. 2023;312(Pt 1):136992.

7. Wang M, Xue Q, Li X, Krohn K, Ziesche S, Ceglarek U, Blüher M, Keller M, Yaskolka Meir A, Heianza Y, Kovacs P, Shai I, Qi L. Circulating Levels of microRNA-122 and Hepatic Fat Change in Response to Weight-Loss Interventions: CENTRAL Trial. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2022;107(5):e1899-e1906.

8. Wang M, Muraki I, Liu K, et al. Diabetes and Mortality From Respiratory Diseases: The Japan Collaborative Cohort Study. J Epidemiol. 2020;30(10):457-463.（Completed in Osaka University, supported by Campus Asia Program）

9. Wang M, Ma H, Song Q, Zhou T, Hu Y, Heianza Y, Manson JE, Qi L. Red meat consumption and all-cause and cardiovascular mortality: results from the UK Biobank study. Eur J Nutr. 2022;61(5):2543-2553.

10. Wang M, Liu D, Schwender H, Wang H, Wang P, Zhou Z, Li J, Wu T, Zhu H, Beaty TH. Evaluating the effect of nicotinic cholinergic receptor genes on the risk of nonsyndromic cleft lip with or without cleft palate. Oral Dis. 2018;24(6):1068-1072.