Mr Zongtai (Michael) Wu

Michael grew up in Shanghai before moving to the UK during high school. He went on to earn a BA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge, where he developed a foundation in interdisciplinary scientific research. Driven by a passion for computational biology, he completed an MPhil project at the Milner Institute in Cambridge, where he worked on applying machine learning and protein network analysis on metagenomic data to improve the diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia and patient outcomes in critically ill children. Currently, Michael is a PhD candidate in Biomedical Data Science at Inouye Lab, funded by Health Data Research UK. His research focuses on identifying causal mediators between genetics and cardiometabolic diseases, and examining the causal relationships between molecular traits.