Yinan Zheng is the Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine (Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention). Zheng’s research focuses on studying multi-omic biomarkers that predict cancer risk and progression, help risk stratification for cancer screening, and provide biological information for precision medicine-based intervention strategies to improve cancer survivorship. Zheng specializes in developing bioinformatics tools and systems biology analysis. His recent work has begun to investigate epigenetics in virus-associated cancers and cardiovascular risks/diseases among cancer survivors.

Zheng comoleted MS and PhD in Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.