Qingrong Chen, Ph.D.
Health Science Administrator
- Center for Biomedical Informatics & Information Technology
- Informatics and Data Science Program
- Computational Genomics & Bioinformatics Branch
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Current Role
Current Role
As a biomedical informatics program officer and project manager, I oversee and support collaborative projects with NCI intramural groups in the Center for Cancer Research and the Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics. My role also involves fostering collaborations with extramural consortia and working groups, such as APOLLO, CIMAC-CIDC, and NCI-MATCH, to advance innovative cancer research initiatives.
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Projects
Projects
Supports data analysis, scientific consultation, and data science training for this research network.
Develops analytical solutions to help with sharing data and further characterizing cancer immunotherapy.
Enrolls patients to determine whether treating cancer based on their genome is effective. -
Publications
Publications
Featured Publications
The Nuclear Transcription Factor, TAF7, Is a Cytoplasmic Regulator of Protein Synthesis. Science Advances, 2021.
A Comprehensive Map of Alternative Polyadenylation in African American and European American Lung Cancer Patients. Nature Communications, 2021.
Toward Best Practice in Cancer Mutation Detection with Whole-Genome and Whole-Exome Sequencing. Nature Biotechnology, 2021.
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In the News
In the News
Staff from CBIIT and NCI, alongside partners from NIH, FDA, and a consortium of scientists from across the world, joined forces to create reference samples and data call sets to help the cancer community further decipher cancer-related gene mutations. Their findings were recently published in Nature Biotechnology. -
Background
Background
Education
- Ph.D., Showa University
- M.D., Zhejiang University School of Medicine
Previous Work
- Senior Computational Biologist, NCI CCR