Dr. Rong Fan

Biography

Rong Fan is the Harold Hodgkinson Professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University. His research interests primarily focus on the development and deployment of single-cell spatial omics technologies to investigate normal development, aging, and disease processes. He received his B.S. in Applied Chemistry from the University of Science and Technology of China and completed his Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley. He underwent postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology before joining the Yale faculty in 2010. Dr. Fan is known for developing innovative microchip technologies that enable the high-throughput measurement of immune proteins at the single-cell level. One of his notable contributions is the IsoCode microchip and the IsoLight automation system that have been widely adopted by major pharmaceutical companies and cancer centers. Additionally, Dr. Fan has pioneered next-generation sequencing-based spatial omics technologies, resulting in groundbreaking methodologies such as DBiT-seq, spatial-ATAC-seq, and spatial-CUT&Tag. His work has opened new avenues in spatial biology, which significantly enhances our understanding of biological and biomedical processes. Dr. Fan is a co-founder of IsoPlexis and Singleron Biotechnologies and has received multiple awards for his contributions to science and engineering.

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