Dr. Jiang and co-PI Qing Zhang, PhD (Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine) received the one-year award to develop single cell -omic analysis tools.

Dr. Jiang’s awarded project is titled “Single-Cell Omics for Assessing Genomic, Transcriptomic and Epigenomic Cancer Heterogeneity” and the proposed work aims to develop new statistical methods and computational algorithms for single-cell omic analyses in cancer.

Jeremy Purvis, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics was awarded a five-year grant through the Faculty Early Career Development Program of the National Science Foundation.