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Mengjie Chen

TitleAssociate Professor
InstitutionUniversity of Chicago
DepartmentMedicine-Genetic Medicine
AddressChicago IL 60637
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    My primary research is driven by the need for powerful statistical methods to address the challenges those technologies have posed for data analysis and interpretation, particularly for data emerging from biological and biomedical studies, such as epigenetic and cancer genomics related research. I have developed novel methodologies for a variety of problems, including change point detection methods for identifying somatic copy number aberration, nonparametric Bayesian methods to integrate the heterogeneity in somatic mutations into gene expression analysis, Gaussian graphical models for eQTL analysis and methods for the analysis of single cell sequencing data. My ultimate goal is to develop methods that can integrate genomic features into the prediction of clinical outcomes, which will potentially shed new lights on personalized disease diagnosis and prognosis.

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    Yale University, New Haven, CT, USAPhD05/2014Computational Biology
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    2014Student Marshal, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
    2015 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
    2019Alfred P. Sloan Research fellowship in Computational and Molecular Evolutionary Biology , the University of Chicago

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    R01HG011883     (CHEN, MENGJIE ;ZHOU, XIANG)Sep 16, 2021 - Jun 30, 2025
    NIH
    Developing new computational tools for spatial transcriptomics data
    Role: Principal Investigator
    NSF 2016307     Sep 1, 2020 - Aug 31, 2023
    NSF
    Statistical Methods for Intra-tumor Heterogeneity Studies Using Sequencing Data
    Role: Principal Investigator
         (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Human Seed Network Grant)Sep 1, 2019 - Aug 31, 2023
    CZI
    A Female Reproductive Cell Atlas
    Role: co-PI
    1R01GM126553-01     (Mengjie Chen)Aug 1, 2017 - May 31, 2022
    NIH/NIGMS
    COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: ADVANCED STATISTICAL METHODS FOR SINGLE CELL RNA SEQUENCING STUDIES
    Role Description: Single cell RNA sequencing has emerged as a powerful tool in genomics. The technology is essential for understanding the heterogeneity of tissue compositions and the genetic architecture of complex traits and diseases. This project aims to develop new methods to address statistical and computational challenges in scRNAseq data analysis and facilitate the usage of scRNAseq technology.
    Role: Principal Investigator
    R01GM126553     (CHEN, MENGJIE)Aug 1, 2017 - May 31, 2022
    NIH
    Collaborative Research: Advanced statistical methods for single cell RNA sequencing studies
    Role: Principal Investigator

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    1. Hu L, Liu S, Peng Y, Ge R, Su R, Senevirathne C, Harada BT, Dai Q, Wei J, Zhang L, Hao Z, Luo L, Wang H, Wang Y, Luo M, Chen M, Chen J, He C. m6A RNA modifications are measured at single-base resolution across the mammalian transcriptome. Nat Biotechnol. 2022 08; 40(8):1210-1219. PMID: 35288668; PMCID: PMC9378555.
      Citations: 46     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    2. Hu J, Chen M, Zhou X. Effective and scalable single-cell data alignment with non-linear canonical correlation analysis. Nucleic Acids Res. 2022 02 28; 50(4):e21. PMID: 34871454; PMCID: PMC8887421.
      Citations: 4     Fields:    
    3. Kim TH, Zhou X, Chen M. Demystifying "drop-outs" in single-cell UMI data. Genome Biol. 2020 08 06; 21(1):196. PMID: 32762710; PMCID: PMC7412673.
      Citations: 35     Fields:    
    4. Liu S, Zhu A, He C, Chen M. REPIC: a database for exploring the N6-methyladenosine methylome. Genome Biol. 2020 04 28; 21(1):100. PMID: 32345346; PMCID: PMC7187508.
      Citations: 42     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    5. Zhang Z, Zhan Q, Eckert M, Zhu A, Chryplewicz A, De Jesus DF, Ren D, Kulkarni RN, Lengyel E, He C, Chen M. RADAR: differential analysis of MeRIP-seq data with a random effect model. Genome Biol. 2019 12 23; 20(1):294. PMID: 31870409; PMCID: PMC6927177.
      Citations: 23     Fields:    Translation:HumansAnimalsCells
    6. Chen M, Zhou X. VIPER: variability-preserving imputation for accurate gene expression recovery in single-cell RNA sequencing studies. Genome Biol. 2018 11 12; 19(1):196. PMID: 30419955; PMCID: PMC6233584.
      Citations: 40     Fields:    
    7. Silva GO, Siegel MB, Mose LE, Parker JS, Sun W, Perou CM, Chen M. SynthEx: a synthetic-normal-based DNA sequencing tool for copy number alteration detection and tumor heterogeneity profiling. Genome Biol. 2017 04 08; 18(1):66. PMID: 28390427; PMCID: PMC5385048.
      Citations: 18     Fields:    Translation:Humans
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