Zhengan Lu
Phd Student
E-mail: zhengan.lu@ki.se
Visiting address: Nobels väg 7, 17165 Solna
Postal address: C8 Medicinsk epidemiologi och biostatistik, C8 MEB II Bergen, 171 77 Stockholm
About me
- 2019 - 2022 MSc in Psychiatry
Peking University
2014 - 2019 Bachelor in Clinical Medicine
Fudan University
Research
- My general research interests lie in the comorbidity of psychiatric disorders
and its genetic and environmental mechanisms.
My MSc project was about the co-occurrence pattern of psychological symptoms
among the general population after COVID-19 outbreak. My PhD project will
mainly focus on schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa, two serious psychiatric
disorders demonstrating high level of familial co-aggregation with severe
outcomes and diverse clinical features. Data from available GWAS studies will
be utilized to uncover the shared genetic architecture of schizophrenia and
anorexia nervosa. Schizophrenia-anorexia nervosa polygenic overlap will be
further leveraged to quantify the impact of genetic liability to
schizophrenia on the clinical presentations and outcomes of anorexia nervosa,
and vice versa. These approaches may provide novel insights into the clinical
heterogeneity of schizophrenia and anorexia nervosa, reveal potential
etiology for their comorbidity, and bring implications for the clinical
management of the two severe disorders.