Xianjun Dong is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Bergen (supervisor: Boris Lenhard). He has been the Director of Computational Neuroscience of the Precision Neurology Program (Director: Clemens Scherzer, MD) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 2013, leading the Bioinformatics team working on neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s disease. He is particularly interested in the non-coding RNAs (miRNA, eRNA, circRNA, etc.) and their functions in the brain. Dr. Dong is also awarded by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA), NIH (R01, U01, R41).
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
Xianjun Dong, PhD
Yale University
Xianjun Dong is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Medical School and the founding director of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He received his Ph.D. degree in Bioinformatics at the University of Bergen (supervisor: Boris Lenhard). He has been the Director of Computational Neuroscience of the Precision Neurology Program (Director: Clemens Scherzer, MD) at Brigham and Women’s Hospital since 2013, leading the Bioinformatics team working on neurodegenerative diseases including Parkinson’s disease. He is particularly interested in the non-coding RNAs (miRNA, eRNA, circRNA, etc.) and their functions in the brain. Dr. Dong is also awarded by the American Parkinson Disease Association (APDA), NIH (R01, U01, R41).
