“Harnessing Big Data for Precision Oncology”

Leng Han, Ph.D.,
Associate Professor and CPRIT scholar at Texas A&M University,
Institute of Biosciences & Technology
Thursday, February 9, 2023
12:00 – 1:00 PM HST
Zoom Details
Link: https://hawaii.zoom.us/j/92124491501
Meeting ID: 921 2449 1501
Passcode: QHS646
Dr. Han is an Associate Professor and CPRIT scholar at Texas A&M University, Institute of Biosciences & Technology. Before join TAMU, he is an Assistant Professor at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Han obtained his PhD from Chinese Academy of Sciences and did postdoc training with Dr. Joseph C. Wu at Stanford University, and Dr. Han Liang at MD Anderson Cancer Center. Dr. Han’s lab focused on harnessing big data for precision oncology. In the past several years, his labs contributed to RNA-targeted therapy, target therapy and immunotherapy, and published several papers in high profile journals, including Cancer Cell, Nature Metabolism, Nature Immunology, Nature Communications, The Innovation, Cell Systems, Cell Reports, Nucleic Acids Research, Genome Medicine, Journal of the National Cancer Institute. He has been invited to contribute review, commentary and spotlight by multiple journals, including Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology, Nature Biotechnology, Trends in Genetics, Trends in Cancer, Trends in Molecular Medicine, Genome Medicine, and Oncogene. To date, he has published >160 peer-reviewed papers, with a total of > 20,000 citations (Google scholar, H-index = 56).
For more information, contact Dr. Chathura Siriwardhana at Tel. 692-1487 or Email: cksiri@hawaii.edu ; or
Hua Yang at Tel. 692-1661 or Email: yanghua@hawaii.edu