Dr Mingyan FangChief Scientist, BGI Research Asia-Pacific

Dr. Mingyan Fang, PhD, Chief Scientist, BGI-Research Asia-Pacific. Her main interest lies in human disease research using multi-omics approach. She has strong expertise in applying multi-omics and bioinformatics technologies on disease study. She uses machine learning and other data mining technologies to explore the synergistic effect between genes, and to identify new disease biomarkers. She is also committed to translating research findings into disease screening, diagnosis and therapeutics. She has published more than 50 papers in this field (h-index 29) is the first/corresponding author to 17 of them. She is the inventor of 15 patents (12 have been granted, 7 of which she was the first inventor). She has applied for 4 software copyrights. She is the principal investigator of a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) funded project to explore of oligogenic mechanism in Primary Immunodeficiency. She is also the principal investigator of a major project that investigates the genetic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus.