Associate Professor Ling Yang
Research groups
- Assessment of the role of EBV infection in aetiology of nasopharyngeal and gastric cancers in Chinese adults CRUK STUDENTSHIP AVAILABLE
- Chronic infection, host immunity and risk of cancer (MRC PHRU)
- Chronic infection, host immunity, and non-communicable disease risk
- Chronic infection, host immunity, and disease risk
- Female reproductive history and risks of cancer and other diseases in a prospective cohort study of 300,000 Chinese women
- Genomic analysis of reproductive health in Chinese populations
- Reproductive factors and breast cancer risk in diverse populations
Ling Yang
PhD
Senior Epidemiologist
Ling Yang qualified in Medicine at South-Eastern University (China) in 1995 then gained her MSc in Bio-statistics in 1998 there, and her PhD in Epidemiology at the University of Tampere (Finland) in 2005.
Before moving to the University of Oxford in 2007, she worked at the Chinese Academy of Medical Science (CAMS) and Ministry of Health in Beijing (China), WHO International Agency for Research on Cancer in Lyon (IARC/WHO, France) and Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm (Sweden). She is a senior epidemiologist at CTSU and MRC PHRU, and leads the long-term follow-up working group, women health and infection & cancer research groups in the China Kadoorie Biobank study.
Ling’s main research focus are on women’s reproductive health, chronic infection and environmental causes of chronic diseases (especially cancer) based on large scale cohort studies, and evidence-based medicine using large national disease surveillance and risk factors survey data to provide strategies for chronic disease prevention and control in developing countries.
Recent publications
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Proteomic Analyses in Diverse Populations Improved Risk Prediction and Identified New Drug Targets for Type 2 Diabetes.
Journal article
Yao P. et al, (2024), Diabetes Care
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Infectious pathogens and risk of esophageal, gastric and duodenal cancers and ulcers in China: A case-cohort study.
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Kartsonaki C. et al, (2024), Int J Cancer, 154, 1423 - 1432
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Reproductive factors and risk of lung cancer among 300,000 Chinese female never-smokers: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank study.
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Elbasheer MMA. et al, (2024), BMC Cancer, 24
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Dietary factors and patterns in relation to risk of later-onset ulcerative colitis in Chinese: a prospective study of 0.5 million people
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CHEN Z. et al, (2024), Alimentary Pharmacology and Therapeutics
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A genome-wide association study based on the China Kadoorie Biobank identifies genetic associations between snoring and cardiometabolic traits.
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Zhu Y. et al, (2024), Commun Biol, 7