About us

We have a small tight knit lab group that is eager to explore the interaction between nutrition (including maternal nutrition, different diet patterns and intake of certain nutrient) and early life development, epigenetic modifications, gene expressions, protein expressions, metabolic consequences, physiological outcomes and relative risk of developmentally-related diseases in different organs, such as liver, muscle, adipose tissue, colon, blood and brain.

Some of our current work revolves around caloric restrictions, high-fat diets, low-carb diets, high-protein diets, ketogenic diets, and their influence on liver toxicity, colon health and carcinogenesis, and autism spectrum disorders.

Recently, we are also learning to use sequencing technologies and bioinformatics tools, in order to further investigate and understand the interplay of diet, individual health and disease development.

Our long-term research goal is to

• bridge the gap in understanding of the impact of nutrition on individual health and longevity
• with an emphasis on dietary interventions for certain disease (e.g. obesity, NAFLD, cancers) treatment and prevention