Associate Professor Huaidong Du
Huaidong Du
MSc, PhD
Associate Professor
Huaidong Du is an associate professor working on the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study whose researches focuses on diet, physical activity, adiposity, diabetes, eye diseases etc. Since 2013, she has been involved in coordinating the second and third resurveys of the CKB, each involving 25,000 participants from 10 study areas in China.
Huaidong obtained her MD degree in 1994 and had been working as an ophthalmologist for eight years in China. In 2009, she finished her MSc and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Netherlands and joined the Clinical Trial Service Unit & Epidemiological Studies Unit (CTSU) afterwards.
Recent publications
ProLM: a plasma proteomics pretrained model for the general population
Journal article
Qiu S. et al, (2026), Nature Communications, 17
Frequency of fish/seafood consumption and risk of stroke: a prospective cohort study in Zhejiang, China
Journal article
Wang H. et al, (2026), Nutrition and Metabolism, 23
Sleep quality and incidence of diabetes in 0.5 million Chinese adults
Journal article
Xu C. et al, (2026), BMC Public Health, 26
Optimizing colorectal cancer screening through polygenic risk score-based risk stratification: evidence from a population-based cohort and screening trial
Journal article
Chen H. et al, (2026), Genome Medicine, 18
Genome-wide meta-analysis across East Asian and European populations provides insights into the molecular basis of lung cancer
Journal article
Zhu M. et al, (2026), Genome Medicine, 18