Yan Xu
Professor at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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Top SchoolYan Xu is a biomedical researcher and professor leading a lung genomics lab at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center with over two decades of experience spanning academia and industry. Trained in pharmacology and pathology (BS/MS, Fudan; PhD, University of South Alabama), she progressed from postdoctoral research to faculty roles and now directs translational genomics efforts focused on pediatric lung biology. Her background includes bioinformatics experience in industry (Monsanto) that informs her integrative approach to high-throughput data and computational analysis. She has a sustained academic track record since 2007, combining wet-lab and computational teams to map cellular programs in lung development and disease. Colleagues cite her ability to bridge clinical relevance and mechanistic genomics, mentoring the next generation of physician-scientists. Based in Cincinnati, she runs an active lab that publishes and shares resources for the lung genomics community.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Pharmacology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Pharmacology at University of South AlabamaBS, MS, Pharmocology, Pathology, BS, MS, Pharmocology, Pathology at Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
seq10
entropy9
rna-seq9
bioinformatics8
differentiation6
profiling6
pipeline6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
xu-lab/SLICE
May 2017 - May 2020
A method for calculating single cell entropy and reconstructing cell differentiation lineage using single-cell RNA-seq data
Contributions:2 commits, 2 pushes in 3 years
entropylineagedifferentiationmethodbioinformatics
xu-lab/CellRef
May 2022 - Jul 2023
Guided construction of single cell reference
Contributions:1 release, 7 PRs, 31 pushes in 1 year 1 month
single-cellguided
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