Ying Hu, Ph.D.

Staff Scientist

Current Role

Current Role

I support the research of NCI’s Center for Cancer Research, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, and other NCI initiatives. I manage the algorithms and data analysis pipeline on biostatistics, systems biology, and machine learning in studies on clinical outcomes, omics, and high-throughput functional genomics data.
Projects

Projects

Cancer Research Data Commons

Connects you to the data ecosystem, NCI's primary platform for cancer research.
Publications

Publications

Featured Publications

gcMECM: Graph Clustering of Mutual Exclusivity of Cancer Mutations. BMC Bioinformatics, 2021.

The Tumour Microenvironment Shapes Innate Lymphoid Cells in Patients with Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Gut, 2021.

Single-cell Transcriptome Mapping Identifies Common and Cell-type Specific Genes Affected by Acute Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol in Humans. Scientific Reports, 2020.
Background
Background
Education

Ph.D., Population Genetics, Sichuan University of China
Previous Work

Postdoctoral Fellow, Fox Chase Cancer Center of Philadelphia
Recent Awards

Heritage Provider Network Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (HPN-DREAM) Breast Cancer Network Inference Challenge, Best Performer