Dr. Jun Ding

Biography

Jun Ding is an Assistant Professor at McGill University specializing in Biological and Biomedical Engineering. His lab focuses on studying cell dynamics related to various biological processes and diseases, including developmental disorders, pulmonary diseases, and cancers. Aiming to decode cell dynamics is essential for understanding the pathogenesis of diseases and finding novel therapeutics. The significant heterogeneity of these diseases poses challenges that his research addresses through advanced single-cell technologies to profile individual cell states. This approach provides unprecedented opportunities to tackle complex problems and drive biological discoveries and medical innovations, specifically in fields such as developmental cancer biology. His primary research interests include developing machine learning approaches, particularly probabilistic graphical models, to jointly analyze, model, and visualize single-cell and bulk omics data. He aims to derive models that contribute to a deeper understanding of cell dynamics in biological systems, ultimately benefiting public health through machine-learning-driven diagnostics and therapeutic strategies.

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