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Germ cell biology · Developmental programming · Epigenetic inheritance of disease
How do early developmental processes set lifelong health trajectories?
The Deng Lab investigates how maternal health states are biologically encoded during early development to shape offspring disease trajectories.
Our work is grounded in the concept that inheritance of disease risk is not limited to DNA sequence, but is mediated through epigenetic and cellular programming events occurring in the germline and at the maternal–fetal interface.
Latest News
2026.02.06
We are recruiting a Postdoc
To study the early-life programming of metabolism in mouse and human.
Read more about the position here, under postdoctoral positions
Apply until 6 March, 2026
2025.11.18
New paper published in Cell Reports Medicine
Big congrats to Allan and all who contributed to this project!
Read it here:
2024.12.03
We opened our lab at Stockholm University
Thank you for funding our research!
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