The Jackson Laboratory for Genomic Medicine Auditorium
11:00 am
Presenter: Rong Chen, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Genome Informatics, Icahn Institute for Genomics and Multiscale Biology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY
Title: “Using big data to interpret genomes for diagnosis, therapeutics, and precision medicine”
Brief Bio: Rong Chen, PhD, is Director of Clinical Genome Informatics at Icahn Institute of Genetics and Multiscale Biology. He is a recognized leader on genomics and precision medicine, with 13 years of work experience on translational bioinformatics, genomics, and genetics. His research focuses on developing infrastructure, knowledgebase, pipeline, clinical application, and commercial products to analyze next generation sequencing data, and interpret personal genomes and electronic medical records for clinical diagnosis, therapeutics, precision medicine, and predictive disease risk. Dr. Chen helped launch a startup company, Personalis, which won the VA’s contract for the Million Veteran Genome project. He has been leading collaborative efforts at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Personalis, and Stanford University to drive personalized medicine and clinical diagnosis on Mendelian and complex diseases using whole genome and exome sequencing and integrative genomics. He is the chief architect of the recently published Resilience Project which identifies genetic variants that could protect children from inherited disorders. Dr. Chen has published over 80 papers in top tiered journals such as Cell, Nature Biotechnology, Nature Methods, PNAS, Lancet, AJHG, Science Translational Research, Genome Research, and Genome Medicine. He holds numerous patents for software and databases on personalized medicine, diagnosis and structure modeling.
For more information, contact: Deborah Shurberg at deborah.shurberg@jax.org