Yuting Wang

PhD candidate · LKC Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU) · YUTING012@e.ntu.edu.sg

I am a PhD student from Shen Lab at Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University Singapore (NTU). My research focuses on leveraging cutting-edge multi-omics technologies and machine learning approaches to capture the molecular features and dynamic trajectories of human aging and age-related diseases. I am also interested in developing bioinformatics tools to address current gaps in omics data analysis, with a particular emphasis on metabolomics.


Education

Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

PhD Candidate, LKC Medicine
Focus: Aging and multi-omics research
August 2025 - Present

Peking University, Beijing, China

Master of Science
School of Public Health - Environmental Epidemiology

Thesis: Short-Term PM2.5 Exposure and Sleep Health in Older Adults: the Role of DNA Methylation

September 2023 - June 2025

Peking University, Beijing, China

Bachelor of Medicine
School of Public Health - Preventive Medicine

Relevant courses: Medical statistics, Epidemiology, Biochemistry, Genetics, and Microbiology

September 2018 - June 2023

Publications

First Author / Co-First Author

easyEWAS: a flexible and user-friendly R package for epigenome-wide association study
Yuting Wang, Meijie Jiang, Siyuan Niu, Xu Gao*
First Author Bioinformatics Advances 2025
Short-Term PM2.5 Exposure and DNA Methylation Changes of Circadian Rhythm Genes: Evidence from Two Experimental Studies
Yuting Wang#, Huichu Li#, Jing Huang#, Meijie Jiang, Sifan Tian, Shuzhen Liu, Ling Zhang*, Shaowei Wu*, Haidong Kan*, Xu Gao*
Co-First Author Environmental Science & Technology 2024
Early-life risk factors, accelerated biological aging, and the late-life risk of mortality and morbidity
Xu Gao#*, Yuting Wang#, Zhu Song#, Meijie Jiang, Tao Huang, Andrea A. Baccarelli
Co-First Author QJM 2024

Co-Author

Short-term Black Carbon Exposure Impairs Mental Health and DNA Methylation Signatures of Mitochondrial Carrier Genes
Shuzhen Liu, Yaxin Luo, Jiansheng Cai, Yuting Wang, Jiahui Rong, Xiaoting Mo, Yujian Liang, Zeyan Ye, Xu Tang, Siyuan Niu, Tiantian Zhang, Lei Luo, Linhai Zhao, Peifeng Guo, Meijie Jiang, You Li, Weiyi Pang, Jian Qin, Zhiyong Zhang*, Xu Gao*
Journal of Hazardous Materials 2026
ExposomeX: Development of an Integrative Exposomic Platform to Expedite Discovery of the “Exposure–Biology–Disease” Nexus
Bin Wang, Changxin Lan, Guohuan Zhang, Mengyuan Ren, Tianxiang Wu, Ning Gao, Weinan Lin, Yanqiu Feng, Han Zhang, Bahabake Jiangtulu, Yuting Wang, Shu Su, Zhijian Liu, Xuqiang Shao, Fanrong Zhao, Bo Peng, Xiaotong Ji, Xiaojia Chen, Min Nian, Junjie Yang, Mingliang Fang*
Environmental Science & Technology 2025
Air Pollution Control Mitigates Frailty Progression: Evidence from Two Cohorts of Older Adults and DNA Methylation Insights
Meijie Jiang, Yuting Wang, Sifan Tian, Shuzhen Liu, Yaxin Luo, Haocan Song, Jian Qin, Yuebin Lv, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Zhiyong Zhang, Xiaoming Shi*, Xu Gao*
Environmental Science & Technology 2025
Accelerated biological aging elevates the risk of cardiometabolic multimorbidity and mortality
Meijie Jiang, Sifan Tian, Shuzhen Liu, Yuting Wang, Xinbiao Guo, Tao Huang, Xihong Lin, Daniel W. Belsky, Andrea A. Baccarelli, Xu Gao
Nature Cardiovascular Research 2024

Talks

Talk 1

EWAS Strategy Design and Practical Statistical Modeling

Event: 2025 Workshop on Epigenetics and Multi-omics Applications
Location: Shanghai, China
Date: June 2025
Type: Invited Talk
Talk 2

Short-Term PM2.5 Exposure and DNA Methylation Changes of Circadian Rhythm Genes: Evidence from Two Experimental Studies

Event: The 5th Joint Annual Conference of the Academic Conference on Environment and Health
Location: Xian, China
Date: October 2023
Type: Oral Presentation

Interests

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Awards & Honors

Excellent Graduate, Peking University (June 2025)
National Scholarship (highest honor from Ministry of Education, China) (December 2024)
Merit Student Award, Peking University (December 2024)
Challenge Cup Special Prize & Best Poster Award, Peking University (May 2023)
Academic Excellence Award, Peking University (December 2022)