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Dr. Yi Xing is the Francis West Lewis Endowed Chair and Founding Director of the Center for Computational Genomic Medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He serves as the Executive Director of the Department of Biomedical and Health Informatics at CHOP. Dr. Xing is a Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. His extensive publication record spans the fields of bioinformatics, genomics, and RNA biology, with a focus on integrating computational biology and biomedical data science. Dr. Xing’s research interests center on understanding the complexities of RNA processing, genomic technologies, and their applications in human genetics and precision medicine, particularly in relation to cancer immunotherapy. His laboratory investigates RNA regulatory networks and the alternative isoform complexity of mammalian transcriptomes and proteomes, utilizing both conventional and single-cell transcriptomic methods.
University of Pennsylvania • Philadelphia, PA
Professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, conducting research in computational biology and genomic medicine.
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