Postdoctoral Fellows and Trainees

PhD student, Mathematics, Bayero University Kano

Abdulhamid is one of the first two fellows selected for the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program.

PhD, Genetics, Shanghai Institute of Plant Physiology and Ecology

Hua-Chang Chen focuses mainly on inferring the underlying causal genes for severe diseases by utilizing GWAS (Genome-Wide Association Study) and Mendelian randomization. His work also includes predicting risk genes/domains by integrating multi-omics data.

Publications include "A domain damage index to prioritizing the pathogenicity of missense variants" (Human Mutation 2021).

PhD student, Statistics, Bayero University Kano

Ibrahim is one of the first two fellows selected for the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program.

PhD, Bioinformatics, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, Shanghai Technology University

Jia Li's work at Vanderbilt has included "Tuft cell heterogeneity in function, lineage, and structure in ideal inflammatory disease," "Combinatorial single-cell strategies for a Crohn's disease gut cell atlas," and "Mechanistic insights into histone deacetylase inhibition for the treatment of retinoblastoma."

Publications include "scMRMA: Single cell multiresolution marker-based annotation" (Nucleic Acids Research 2022)

PhD, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, East China University of Science and Technology & Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences of Chinese Academy of Sciences

Jing Yang’s research work is focused on revealing the relationships between genotype and immunophenotype and identifying the determinates of immunogenicity for immunotherapy in melanoma. Dr. Yang also studies the TGFβ signaling pathway that functions through SMAD4 in inflammation-associated cancer.

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