Ting Zhang, Ph.D., M.P.H.

Ting Zhang, Ph.D., M.P.H., joined the Metabolic Epidemiology Branch (MEB) as a postdoctoral fellow in January 2022. She earned her M.P.H. in maternal and child health from Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China, in 2017 and her Ph.D. in epidemiology and biostatistics from the University of Hong Kong, China, in 2021. Her doctoral research investigated the roles of macronutrients in the etiology of cardiometabolic diseases and cancer by using Mendelian randomization and cohort studies. She received the 2023 DCEG Intramural Research Award and the 2025 DCEG Fellows' Award for Research Excellence.

In MEB, Dr. Zhang investigates dietary factors, metabolomics, lipidomics, proteomics, as well as genetic components of these exposures in the etiology of pancreatic cancer in cohort studies. Her mentor is Rachael Stolzenberg-Solomon, Ph.D., M.P.H., R.D.