Dr Huaidong Du
Huaidong Du
MSc, PhD
Senior Research Fellow
- Clinical Trial Service Unit
Huaidong Du obtained her MD degree in 1994 and had been working as an ophthalmologist for 8 years in China. In 2009, she finished her MSc and PhD in Nutritional Epidemiology from the Netherlands and joined CTSU afterwards. Currently, she is a senior research fellow working on the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) study with main researches focus on diet, physical activity, adiposity, diabetes, eye diseases and etc. Since 2013, she has been involved in coordinating the currently on-going second resurvey of the CKB, which includes 25,000 participants from 10 study areas in China.
Recent publications
Adiposity and risk of breast cancer in 280 000 Chinese women: a prospective cohort study.
Journal article
Kartsonaki C. et al, (2026), Int J Epidemiol, 55
Body Mass Index and Risks of More Than 40 Cause-Specific Mortality in Chinese Women: A Prospective Cohort Study.
Journal article
Hu J. et al, (2026), J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle, 17
Proteomic organ-specific signatures, ageing traits, disease risks and genetic architecture in an East Asian population.
Journal article
Bennett DA. et al, (2026), EBioMedicine, 130
Genetic Associations With Carotid Intima-Media Thickness in the Chinese Population and Shared Genetic Architecture With Cardiometabolic Diseases and Traits.
Journal article
Wang W. et al, (2026), Circ Genom Precis Med
ProLM: a plasma proteomics pretrained model for the general population.
Journal article
Qiu S. et al, (2026), Nat Commun