{"id":6667,"date":"2019-01-11T09:37:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T14:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=6667"},"modified":"2019-03-05T14:33:31","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T19:33:31","slug":"yuchao-jiang-phd-receives-unc-computational-medicine-program-pilot-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/yuchao-jiang-phd-receives-unc-computational-medicine-program-pilot-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuchao Jiang, PhD Receives UNC Computational Medicine Program Pilot Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6893 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2017\/06\/Yuchao-Jiang-175x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2017\/06\/Yuchao-Jiang-175x175.jpg 175w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2017\/06\/Yuchao-Jiang-175x175-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2017\/06\/Yuchao-Jiang-175x175-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The project is titled \u201cSingle-Cell Omics Analyses for Assessing Genomic, Transcriptomic, and Epigenomic Heterogeneity in Cancer\u201d.\u00a0 The labs plan to develop methods to profile copy number aberrations and assess intratumor heterogeneity by single-cell DNA sequencing, to deconvolute bulk gene expression profiles by existing single-cell RNA sequencing datasets, and to profile epigenetic heterogeneity by single-cell chromatin accessibility analysis. 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