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Abdurrahman Abdulhamid
VN-BioStat Fellow (2022–2023)PhD student, Mathematics, Bayero University Kano
Abdulhamid is one of the first two fellows selected for the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program.
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Leila Azinfar
Postdoctoral Research FellowAsiaee LabPhD, Bioengineering, University of Missouri-Columbia
Research focus: applying statistical and machine learning methods to large-scale datasets of biological information; identifying causal relationships between regulatory molecules and specific biological processes to develop more targeted and effective treatments for a wide range of diseases and conditions
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Chia-Jung "Charlene" Chang
Visiting Research ScholarPhD candidate, Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University (Taiwan)
Research interests include: single-cell RNA sequence analysis, high-dimensional data analysis, precision medicine, multi-omit meta-analysis, mathematical models, statistical and bioinformatics methodology, engineering mathematics, cancer biology
For more information: github.com/Charlene717
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Yusuf Ibrahim Ibrahim
VN-BioStat Fellow (2022–2023)PhD student, Statistics, Bayero University Kano
Ibrahim is one of the first two fellows selected for the Vanderbilt-Nigeria Biostatistics Training Program.
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Jia Li
Postdoctoral FellowPhD, 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)
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Jing Yang
Postdoctoral FellowPhD, 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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