Academic Staff
- TU318
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- yuyan.zhu@polyu.edu.hk
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We are studying the role of functional food components/nutrients in ameliorating lipid metabolism disorders, such as obesity and its associated metabolic syndromes, with the focus on adipose tissue.
Education and Academic Qualifications
- Bachelor of Science, Zhejiang University
- Doctor of Philosophy, Purdue University
Academic and Professional Experience
- Editorial Board Member, Journal of Future Foods.
- Review Editor on the Editorial Board of RNA (specialty section of Frontiers in Genetics and Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences)
- Member of Biophysical Society of China
- Scientific consultant, EFIL Bioscience Incorporation
Research Interests
Achievements
- Young Investigator Award (1st place in poster Presentation), 20th diabetes and cardiovascular risk factors - East Meets West Symposium (2018)
- The Bilsland Dissertation Fellowship, Purdue University, USA (2015-2016)
- Purdue Research Foundation Graduate Fellowship, Purdue University, USA (2014)
- National Scholarship, Minister of Education, China (2007)
- Kee-Hong Kim, Yuyan Zhu. "Compositions and methods for regulating body weight and metabolic syndromes" (filled on 2017), Pub. No. WO2018093966, United States Patent & Trademark Office.
- Xiaohan Cao, Yan Li, Yunlong Zi#, and Yuyan Zhu# (2023) “The Shift of Percent Excess Mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic (2020-2022) in Singapore, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong SAR” Front. Public Health 11:1085451. (# corresponding author)
- Ho Ting Shiu*, Xiaohan Pan*, Qing Liu, KeKao Long, Kenneth King Yip Cheng, Ben Chi-Bun Ko, James Kar-Hei Fang, Yuyan Zhu# (2022) “Dietary exposure to polystyrene nanoplastics impairs fasting-induced lipolysis in adipose tissue from high-fat diet fed mice“. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 440, 2022, 129698, ISSN 0304-3894. (# corresponding author)
- Li Su, Quan Xiong, Yuyan Zhu#, and Yunlong Zi# (2022) “A Liquid-Solid Contact Electrification based All-Optical Liquid Flow Sensor for Microfluidic Analysis in Biomedical Applications“. Adv. Funct. Mater., 2207096. (# corresponding author)
- Y. Zhu#, Sora Q. Kim, Yuan Zhang, Qing Liu, Kee-Hong Kim# (2021) “Pharmacological inhibition of acyl-coenzyme A: cholesterol acyltransferase alleviates obesity and insulin resistance in diet-induced obese mice by regulating food intake”. Metabolism, 123, 154861. 2021. (# corresponding author)
- HR Steele, Y Xing, Y Zhu, HB Hilley, K Lawson, Y Nho, T Niehoff, L Han# (2021) “MrgprC11+ sensory neurons mediate glabrous skin itch”. PNAS, 118 (15) e2022874118.
- X Xia, Q Liu, Y. Zhu#, Y Zi# (2020) "Recent Advances of Triboelectric Nanogenerator Based Applications in Biomedical Systems". EcoMat, 2020; 2:e12049. (# corresponding author)
- Zhu, Y., Chen, C.Y., Li, J., Chen, J.-X., Jang, M., Kim, K.-H. (2018) "In vitro exploration of ACAT contributions to lipid droplet formation during adipogenesis". Journal of Lipid Research, 59(5):820-829.
- Kim, C.Y.*, Zhu, Y.*, Buhman, K.K., Kim, K.-H. (2015) "Dietary selenate attenuates adiposity and improves insulin sensitivity in high-fat diet-induced obese mice". Journal of Functional Foods, 17:33-42. (* co-first author)
