Overview

Dr. Gang is a director of Center for Applied Bioinformatics at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. His research interests include:

• Understanding the complexity of transcriptomes and epigenomes in normal brain cells and the aberrant events in brain tumor cells, as well as in motor neurons of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis patients.
• Identifying germline risk variants and novel risk genes for brain tumors and neurodegenerative diseases.
• Modeling complex chromosomal re-arrangements through novel technology and innovative methods.
• Bioinformatics method evaluation and optimization.

Education

• PhD, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• MS, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China
• BS, Wuhan University, Wuhan, Hubei Province, China