Haolan Tu (AFHEA)
Thesis title: 5α-Reductases: Mapping pathways of Metabolic Disease
Precision Medicine DTP
Year of study: 3
- Centre for Cardiovascular Science
Contact details
- Email: Haolan.Tu@ed.ac.uk
PhD supervisors:
Address
- Street
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Centre for Cardiovascular Science
Queen's Medical Research Institute
47 Little France Crescent - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH16 4TJ
Qualifications
- MRC DTP Precision Medicine, University of Edinburgh, 2022-present
- BSc(Hons) Biomedical Sciences, University of Edinburgh, 2019-2022
Responsibilities & affiliations
- University of Edinburgh Student Discipline Committee, 2023-2026
- Co-chair, Curriculum Transformation Programme Student Engagement Strategy Group
- Member of the CTP Experiential Learning Working Group
Undergraduate teaching
I teach undergraduate courses in Deanery of Biomedical Sciences. Course tutored:
- Medical Biology 1
- Biomedical Science 2/3
- Clinical Biochemistry and Endocrinology 3
I also contribute to practical demonstrations in undergraduate pharmacology courses including Chemical Pharmacology 2, Pharmacology 3, Applied Pharmacology 3 and Clinical Biochemistry and Endocrinology 3.
Other teaching responsibility:
- Group Coach, Students As Change Agents (SACHA)
- Instructor, DUSC Data Carpentry
Research summary
- Role of glucocorticoids, 5α-reductase in diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, and metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease
- Pharmacoepidemiology and drug surveillance, modelling of drug exposure using routinely collected data and clinical trials (SCOT-HEART trial)
- System biology, causal inference, gene regulatory network and transcriptomic analyses
Knowledge exchange
External talks
- May 2024, Computational Biology Unit, University of Bergen
- June 2024, Centre for Translational Research in Epidemiology (TRACE), University of Bergen
Affiliated research centres
Conference details
Research
- Société Internationale d’Urologie Congress 2025, Edinburgh
- SfE BES 2025, Harrogate
- Diabetes UK 2025, Glasgow
Teaching
- RAISE 2025, Co-creating a Manifesto of Co-creation with us
- Learning and Teaching Conference 2025, Co-creating a Manifesto of Co-creation
- Learning and Teaching Conference 2023, How might the University create opportunities for all students to learn by doing?
- Learning and Teaching Conference 2023, SACHA Think Tank: using experiential learning as a tool for co-creation in curriculum transformation
Organiser
- Edinburgh Next Generation of Genomics Symposium 2025
- Edinburgh Next Generation of Genomics Symposium 2024