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Zhongming Zhao, PhD, MS

Vice President of Cancer Genomic Medicine
Chair for Precision Health
Director, Center for Precision Health


Department of Bioinformatics and Systems Medicine


Contact

[email protected] | 713-500-3631



Zhongming Zhao, Ph.D., M.S. is Chair professor at McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston, and appointed as the Chair for Precision Health. He is the founding director of the Center for Precision Health and UTHealth Cancer Genomics Center (a service center). Before coming to UTHealth, Zhao was a tenured professor in the Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Psychiatry and Cancer Biology at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and held Ingram Professorship of Cancer Research. He also served as the chief bioinformatics officer of the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center (VICC), the director of the VICC Bioinformatics Resource Center, and the associate director of the Vanderbilt Center for Quantitative Sciences. Dr. Zhao has more than 25 years of bioinformatics, genomics, machine learning/AI, and pharmacogenomics research experience, collaborated with more than 100 investigators, and has authored/co-authored more than 550 papers (cited by >30,000 times, H-index = 84). His work has been supported by more than 100 funded grants totaling more than $190 million. Dr. Zhao was elected as a fellow in the American College of Medical Informatics (ACMI), the American Medical Informatics Association (FAMIA), and the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). He received the 2023 President’s Scholar Award for Excellence in Research with the honorary title of President’s Scholar.


Education


  • PhD, 2000, Human and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • MS, 2002, Computer Science, University of Houston
  • MS, 1998, Biomathematics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  • MS, 1996, Genetics, Peking University, Beijing, China
  • BS, 1991, Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

Areas of Expertise


  • Bioinformatics: methods, tools, databases
  • Sequencing: WGS, WES, RNA-Seq, microRNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, Methylome, etc.
  • Single-cell omics and spatial transcriptomics
  • Translational bioinformatics
  • Cancer precision medicine
  • Genomic studies of brain disease
  • Pharmacogenomics
  • Drug repositioning

Staff Support


Yukiko Bryson | 713-500-3992

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    Education


    • PhD, 2000, Human and Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • MS, 2002, Computer Science, University of Houston
    • MS, 1998, Biomathematics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences and University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
    • MS, 1996, Genetics, Peking University, Beijing, China
    • BS, 1991, Biology, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

    Areas of Expertise


    • Bioinformatics: methods, tools, databases
    • Sequencing: WGS, WES, RNA-Seq, microRNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, Methylome, etc.
    • Single-cell omics and spatial transcriptomics
    • Translational bioinformatics
    • Cancer precision medicine
    • Genomic studies of brain disease
    • Pharmacogenomics
    • Drug repositioning

    Staff Support


    Yukiko Bryson | 713-500-3992

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