Dr Yiping Chen
Yiping Chen
MBBS, DPhil
Senior Research Fellow
Yiping Chen is a senior research fellow at the CTSU, University of Oxford. She qualified in clinical medicine in 1985 at Shanghai Medical University (now Fudan University) and then worked as junior neurologist in University affiliated teaching hospital, Hua-shan hospital in Shanghai. In 1988 she was awarded Sino-British Friendship Scholarship to study in the UK and gained her PhD at the University of Oxford in 1993.
She joined CTSU in 1998 and has worked as study coordinator and senior research fellow in several CTSU-led large clinical trials such as COMMIT/CCS2, SHARP, HPS2-THRIVE, REVEAL. During 2006-2016 she also plays a leading role in running Oxford-China Fellowship programmes which provides residence training in epidemiology, medical statistics and clinical trials methodology for the clinical doctors, public health workers from China.
She is currently leading a multi-disciplinary team in the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) of 0.5 million people, responsible for developing strategies and procedures related to validation of electronically reported clinical events and for conducting disease validation and adjudication in collaboration with clinical specialists in China for CKB. Her main research interests are in the fields of clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases, major depression, and sleeping disorders
Recent publications
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Proteomic Analyses in Diverse Populations Improved Risk Prediction and Identified New Drug Targets for Type 2 Diabetes.
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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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Association between health insurance cost-sharing and choice of hospital tier for cardiovascular diseases in China: a prospective cohort study.
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Levy M. et al, (2024), Lancet Reg Health West Pac, 45
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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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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