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Biography

Dr. Wei Wu is an Associate Professor and Associate Department Chair in the Department of Toxicology at Nanjing Medical University, China, where he received his Ph.D. in Toxicology in 2012. He was a guest researcher at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) between 2017 and 2018.

He is a member of different national and international societies in the fields of human reproduction and toxicology, and has received awards from many national societies for the originality and quality of his projects. He has a wide range of teaching and consulting experience, including in the area of toxicology. His research interests include epigenetic mechanisms of transgenerational effects of male infertility induced by endocrine disrupting chemicals, environmental exposure, and male reproductive health, genetic and epigenetic risk factors of male infertility and abnormal fetal growth.

Prof. Wu has authored 67 peer-reviewed papers in international journals such as EBioMedicine, Clinical Epigenetics, Environment International, Toxicological Sciences, Scientific Reports, Human Reproduction, and Molecular Human Reproduction. He has edited one book and collaborated on five books, 11 patents and in the organization of three international conferences. He is a reviewer of 54 journals. Prof. Wu serves as the Editor-in-Chief of an international scientific journal International Journal of Sexual Health and Reproductive Health Care, Executive Editor of Annals of Molecular and Genetic Medicine, Associate Editor of the JSM Invitro Fertilization, and editor of many other journals including Scientific Reports and Journal of Experimental and Clinical Toxicology.

Research Interest

Dr. Wei Wu research interests includes male reproductive health, reproductive toxicology, pregnancy complications, abnormal birth outcomes, epigenetics and fetal growth, reproductive epidemiology, and environmental epidemiology.

Publications

Isolations and Cultures of Primary Hepatocytes

Major Depressive Disorder and Heroin-dependent Patients Share Decreased Frontal Gray Matter Volumes: A Voxel-Based Morphometry Study