YAN Jing  

  • Associate Researcher
  • Department: Endocrinology and Metabolism
  • Research Area: Internal medicine
  • Research Interests: Pathogenesis of obesity and diabetes
  • Contact: yanjing@sjtu.edu.cn
  • Associate Researcher, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, 2024                                                       
  • Assistant Researcher, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, 2019-2023
  • Internship Researcher, Shanghai Diabetes Institute, 2017-2019
  • PhD from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 2012-2017
  • Bachelor from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, 2007-2012
  1. Mengyang Tang, Yi Zhang,Rong Zhang,…Jing Yan#, Cheng Hu#. GPSM1 in POMC neurons impairs brown adipose tissue thermogenesis and provokes diet-induced obesity. Molecular Metabolism. 2024, Jan:79:101839.
  2. Jing Yan*, Yuemei Zhang, Hairong Yu,...Weiping Jia, Cheng Hu#. GPSM1 impairs metabolic homeostasis by controlling a pro-inflammatory pathway in macrophages. Nature Communications, 2022, 13(1):7260.
  3. Wan Hui Guo, Qi Guo,...Jing Yan#, Xiang-Hang Luo#, Mi Yang#. Mutated lncRNA increase the risk of type 2 diabetes by promoting β cell dysfunction and insulin resistance. Cell Death&Disease, 2022, 13(10): 904.
  4. Jing  Yan*,Feng Jiang*,...Cheng Hu#,Weiping Jia#. Whole-exome sequencing identifies a novel INS mutation causative of maturity-onset diabetes of the young 10. Journal of Molecular Cell Biology, 2017, 9(5): 376-383.
  5. Jing Yan*, Danfeng Peng,....Cheng Hu#, Weiping Jia#. Impaired pancreatic beta cell compensatory function is the main cuase of type 2 diabetes in individuals with high genetic risk: a 9 year prospective cohort study in the Chinese population. Diabetologia, 2016, 59(7):1458-1462.                                                                 
  • 01/01/2024-12/31/2027
    National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥490,000, 82370879
    Mechanism research of adipocyte GPSM1-mediated  thermogenesis and metabolic homeostasis
    Role: Project leader
  • 04/01/2023-03/31/2026
    Shanghai Rising Star Program, ¥300,000, 23QA1407400
    Molecular Mechanism of mitochondrial mitophagy in regulating energy expenditure and metabolic homeostasis
    Role: Project leader
  • 01/01/2019-12/31/2021
    National Natural Science Foundation of China, ¥210,000, 81800702
    Mechanism research of macrophage GPSM1-mediated adipose tissue inflammation and type 2 diabetes
    Role: Project leader