{"id":8989,"date":"2020-09-03T09:25:09","date_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:25:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/?p=8989"},"modified":"2020-09-03T09:25:56","modified_gmt":"2020-09-03T13:25:56","slug":"yuchao-jiang-phd-awarded-r35-outstanding-investigator-grant-from-nigms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/yuchao-jiang-phd-awarded-r35-outstanding-investigator-grant-from-nigms\/","title":{"rendered":"Yuchao Jiang, PhD Awarded R35 Outstanding Investigator Grant from NIGMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7295 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/genetics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/481\/2017\/06\/YuchaoJiang-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"Yuchao Jiang, PhD\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Yuchao Jiang (Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Genetics) was awarded an R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for his project titled \u201cStatistical Methods for Bulk-Tissue and Single-Cell Multi-Omics Integration\u201d.\u00a0 The program will focus on the following interconnected objectives: (i) bulk omics deconvolution aided by single-cell sequencing, followed by association testing with clinical variables; (ii) joint modeling of bulk genomic sequencing and single-cell transcriptomic sequencing data to simultaneously infer DNA and RNA variation at the single-cell level; and (iii) multi-modal alignment of single-cell omics data.\u00a0 The long-term vision is to introduce problems arising from new biomedical data to the statistics community and to provide data-driven statistical methods and open-source tools to biomedical researchers for better data analysis and experimental design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Yuchao Jiang (Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Genetics) was awarded an R35 grant from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) for his 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