Xianjun Dong

Xianjun Dong is an Associate Professor of Neurology at Yale (www.donglab.org). He was promoted to Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School on April 2020 and started to run his independent lab since then. He was also the founding director of Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub (http://bioinformatics.bwh.harvard.edu) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). He received his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics at the University of Bergen (supervisor: Boris Lenhard, PhD) and postdoc training in Zhiping Weng’s lab at UMass Medical School. He had been the Director of Computational Neuroscience of the Precision Neurology Program (Director: Clemens Scherzer, MD) at BWH since 2013, leading the Bioinformatics team working on multi-omics of Parkinson’s disease. He is particularly interested in the non-coding RNAs (eRNA, circRNA, etc.) and their functions in the brain. Dr. Dong has been awarded by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA, 2017, 2019, 2021) and NIH (two R01s, U01, U19, R41, R24).