Fan Mei, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor, Department of Neurobiology

Contact information

meifan@hsc.pku.edu.cn

Experience

B.S.                           Peking University (2008)

Ph.D.                         Peking University (2011)

Visiting Fellow          National Institutes of Health, NIH (2010)

Lecture                     Peking University Health Science Center (2024)

Assistant Professor   Peking University Health Science Center (since 2025)

Research Directions

Alzheimer’s disease

Personal profile

Dr. Mei’s research focuses on the functional study of genetic risk factors of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and characterizes the mechanism underlying AD pathophysiology. We interpret the coding and non-coding AD-associated variants from whole-genome sequencing of AD cohorts. The main research efforts are categorized into three primary areas: (1) AD susceptibility, (2) AD pathophysiology, and (3) cholinergic dysregulation and memory decline in AD. Our recent discoveries have been published in  Nature Communications  (2024),  Cell Research  (2024),  EMBO Reports  (2023),  BMC Medicine  (2023),  Cell Reports  (2022, 2017).