Department of Food Safety and Toxicology

1、 Introduction to the dean of the Department

Hui Wang, Professor, doctoral supervisor, dean of School of Public Health, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine. She is the recipient of the national outstanding youth fund, the 100-member program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and China young female scientist award, Shanghai excellent academic leader. She is long engaged in chronic disease prevention and control, nutrition and food safety basic and applied research, mainly focusing on the function and role of genetic, nutritional and food-borne hazards and their interactions in individualized diagnosis, prevention and prognosis prediction of tumor and other chronic diseases, screening and discovering new tumor prevention and control targets, and exploring new mechanisms and methods of targeted nutrition and drug prevention and control of tumors. She has published over 170 papers on high level press such as Nature、JAMA、Nature Genetics、Nature Microbiology、Lancet Digit Health、Gut、Nature Communication、EHP、Cell Discovery、JITC、PNAS、CCR. She applied for 54 patents (23 authorized) and transformed 7 of them . She has also formed 25 national/industrial standards and obtained 2 computer software copyright registration. Currently, she is a member of the expert committee of the food safety commission of the State Council, the chairman of the microbiology sub-committee of the national food safety standards review committee, vice chairman of translational medicine branch, Chinese society of nutrition, director of Chinese toxicology society, vice chairman of food toxicology professional committee, vice president of Shanghai preventive medicine association, etc. She is also the editorial board member of many magazines at home and abroad.


2、 Department introduction

The department was established in 2016, and now Professor Wang Hui is the dean of the Department. Our department currently has 35 teachers, among them 16 teachers have senior titles. 86% of the teachers has a doctoral degree. The courses undertaken by out department include: nutrition and food hygiene, Health Microbiology, R language medical data analysis practice, R language mapping, viral infectious diseases, dietary nutrition and health, beauty nutrition, food pollution and disease, introduction to public health and preventive medicine, translational toxicology, frontier of public health and preventive medicine.