Insights on omics data in disease prediction and classification

Speaker bio:

Dr Jun Liu is a medical doctor and genetic epidemiologist specializing in multi-omics research on chronic metabolic diseases. She earned her medical degree from Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2013 and completed a research placement at Rui-Jin Hospital focusing on the clinical epidemiology of type 2 diabetes. She then obtained an MSc in Genetic Epidemiology and a PhD from Erasmus Medical Center, with her thesis titled “Integration of Multi-Omics in Type 2 Diabetes and Related Disorders Research.”

In 2019, Jun joined Oxford Population Health at the University of Oxford as a postdoctoral researcher, using large-scale datasets like UK Biobank to study cardiometabolic and neurological diseases through integrated omics analysis. She gained full General Medical Council (GMC) registration in the UK in 2023.

From 2021, she held a Novo Nordisk Research Fellowship with Professor Cornelia van Duijn and Dr Joanna Howson, leading a cross-omics study of fatty liver disease, using proteomics and other omics to explore disease profiling and identify potential drug targets.

Jun is now returning to China to continue her clinical training and research at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan. Her future work will focus on multi-omics integration in chronic metabolic diseases and the clinical translation of omics findings.