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Xianjun Dong
Summary
Dr. Dong is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and leads the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Bergen and a Postdoctoral fellowship in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He has been the Director of Computational Neuroscience Unit of the Precision Neurology Program (Director: Clemens Scherzer, MD) at Brigham and Women's Hospital since 2013, leading the Bioinformatics team working on neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease, Huntington's disease, etc. He is interested in developing and applying computational methods to understand the transcriptional regulation of the human genome, by integrating genomic, transcriptomic, epigenetic, and clinical data from both healthy subjects and patients with neurological diseases. Dr. Dong has 20+ publications with 12,000+ citations and an H-index of 21. He has made several web-based tools to facilitate the research of long-range gene regulation. He has expertise in analyzing various NGS data, incl. ChIPseq, RNAseq, RNA-PET, CAGE, and WGS data. He was an active member of the ENCODE consortium. He is particularly interested in the non-coding RNAs (miRNA, eRNA, circRNA, etc.) in the brain. Dr. Dong is recently awarded by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA). See his website for more details: http://www.sterding.com.