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Jon Rosen, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Genetics<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jon Rosen, PhD, was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Genetics, effective January 15, 2026.<\/p>\n

Dr. Rosen earned his BS in Medicinal Chemistry from State University of New York at Buffalo in 1996, an MS in Statistics from University of Iowa in 2011, and a PhD in Bioinformatics from UNC-Chapel Hill in 2022.\u00a0\u00a0Dr. Rosen has developed an extensive research program based on his training and expertise.\u00a0\u00a0Ongoing projects with which he is involved include: exploration of methodological improvements to current practices for transcriptome-wide association studies; development of methods and tools to support analyses specific to HiChIP and PLAC-seq datasets; conducting imputation and genome wide association study (GWAS) analyses in support of Trans-Omics for Precision Medicine (TOPMed) projects; and blood cell GWAS analyses of trans-ethnic meta-analysis of five global populations and the UK Biobank.\u00a0He will continue to support these programs and will also\u00a0partner with the Bioinformatics and Analytics Research Collaborative (BARC) in the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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