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12/2025 Dr. Chen and Molin, together with collaborators Dr. Juan C. Celedón, Dr. Erick Forno, Dr. Kathryn S. Torok, and Dr. Zhao Ren, received the ENAR Team Science Award for their integrative multi-omics and precision medicine research.
10/2025 Chen lab was congratulated by the Department of Pediatrics on the research of AI-guided research on scleroderma. News
09/2025 Dr. Chen received pediatric discovery award from the Department of Pediatrics for his outstanding publication in translational science.
09/2025 Chen Lab received an R01 from NIAMS with Dr. Torok to integrate spational transcriptomics with histology images for identifying scleroderma subgroups.
08/2025 Chen Lab received a DoD grant with Dr. Torok to study pediatric scleroderma using a multi-omics approach.
08/2025 Congratulations to Xiangyu Ye for receiving the highly competitive finalist for the ASHG trainee award, also with an oral talk at ASHG conference at Boston in Oct.
07/2025 Dr. Chen is appointed as a regular member of BDMA study section at NIH.
07/2025 Congratulations to Shivum Telang for receiving the student travel award from the ICIBM conference in Columbus, Ohio.
06/2025 Congratulations to Tianhao Liu for receiving the 2025 3CPR Junior Investigator Travel Grant from the American Heart Association.
01/2025 Congratulations to Molin Yue’s work on child asthma endotypes published in JAMA. News report: ABC, NBC, CBS, Washington Post, Post Gazatte, Pitt
12/2024 Haoran Hu was awarded a two-year RAC graduate student fellowship from UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
11/2024 Xueping’s paper was published by Briefings in Bioinformatics.
10/2024 Chen Lab received a renewal from Scleroderma Research Funding(with Dr. Torok) to continue the study of spatial transcriptomics in pediatric scleroderma patients.
09/2024 Dr. Chen joined the officers of Pittsburgh Chapter, American Association Society as Chapter Representative.
08/2024 Haoran’s paper was published by Nature Communications and selected as a featured article.
05/2024 Dr. Chen co-organized STATGEN 2024 conference in Pittsburgh.
03/2024 Chen Lab received an R01 (with Dr. Duerr) from NIDDK to generate a large-scale trans-ancestry, single-cell multi-omics dataset on CD4 T cells.
02/2024 Molin Yue received the 2024 ATS Abstract Scholarship.
01/2024 Dr. Chen was elected as Secretary of Chinese-American Lung Association (CALA)
05/2023 Dr. Chen (with Dr. Forno) received funding from the Institute for Prediction Medicine to study childhood asthma Exacerbations.
05/2023 Chen Lab received Scleroderma Research Funding (with Dr. Torok) to study spatial transcriptomics in pediatric scleroderma patients.
01/2023 Wei Chen was elected as American Thoracic Society Fellow (ATS)
10/2022 Zhongli received semi-finalist for Charles J. Epstein Trainee Awards at ASHG
08/2022 Chen Lab received NSF (2225775) with Dr. Heng Huang to develop statistical and machine learning methods for single-cell multi-omics data
07/2022 Chen Lab received NIH R01 (R01EB034116) with Dr. Heng Huang to develop advanced machine learning methods for ocular data
07/2022 Zhongli has two paper published in Genome Biology and iScience
05/2022 Chen Lab received P01 renewal of Bioinformatics Core to study Severe Asthma with Drs. Ray and Wenzel
03/2022 Wei Chen was appointed as Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering (BME) at Carnegie Mellon University
03/2022 Molin Yue and Zhongli Xu received ATS abstract scholarship
02/2022 Xinjun Wang accepted the faculty position (Assistant Attending Biostatistician) at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
01/2022 Molin Yue’s 2 abstracts were accepted for oral presentation at 2022 ATS International Conference
07/2021 Wei Chen was promoted to full professor
04/2021 Xinjun Wang won 2021 Outstanding Graduate Student Researcher Award
04/2021 Xinjun Wang received Biostatistics Doctoral Award in the Annual GSPH Dean’s Day
03/2021 Xinjun Wang was honored with the Student of the Year Award by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter
03/2021 Wei Chen joined the editorial board of Genome Biology
03/2021 Xinjun Wang won the Outstanding Student Research Award in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
03/2021 Molin Yue won the Best Oral Presentations Award in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
03/2021 Zhongli Xu received an Abstract Scholarship from Assembly on Allergy, Immunology and Inflammation (AII) in ATS
03/2021 Zhongli Xu’s abstract was accepted for oral presentation at 2021 ATS International Conference
03/2021 Molin Yue’s abstract was accepted for poster presentation at 2021 ATS International Conference
10/2020 Wei Chen received PinCH award to study COVID using mobile health technology
09/2020 Xinjun Wang awarded International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Student Paper Award
08/2020 Wei Chen received R21 for the analysis of omics data in Hispanic asthma kids
07/2020 Wei Chen received R21 for the analysis of imaging and genetic data for age-related macular degeneration
06/2020 Xinjun Wang received RAC Graduate Student Fellowship from UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
06/2020 Rong Zhang defended his dissertation on High-Dimensional Inference of Modified Poisson-Type Graphical Models and Robust Sparse CCA, with Applications to Large-Scale Omics Data
04/2020 Tao Sun defended his dissertation on NEW STATISTICAL METHODS FOR COMPLEX SURVIVAL DATA WITH HIGH-DIMENSIONAL COVARIATES
04/2020 Tao Sun was inducted to the Delta Omega Honor Society, which is a renowed national honorary society (founded in 1924) in the field of public health
03/2020 Zhe Sun was nominated Outstanding Student Award from Graduate School of Public Health (GSPH)
03/2020 Yue Wei won the Honorable Mentions for the oral presentation in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
03/2020 Tao Sun won the Best Presentation Award in the Annual Biostatistics Research Day
11/2019 Tao Sun received a Travel Award at the MD Anderson Cancer Center to attend the Integrative Biostatistics Research for Imaging, Genomics and High-throughput Technologies in Precision Medicine (iBRIGHT) conference
07/2019 Xinjun Wang, with Dr. Wei Chen, awarded CTSI QuMP Pilots Funding, an NIH grant, from University of Pittsburgh
06/2019 Tao Sun received a Travel Award for the Deep Learning Workshop hosted by the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)
05/2019 Tao Sun received the Lifetime Data Science Conference (LiDS) 2019 Best Poster Award
04/2019 Tao Sun received the Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award for being a primary instructor in the Department of Biostatistics during both 2017 and 2018 academic years
04/2019 Tao Sun awarded International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) Student Paper Award
04/2019 Tao Sun was honored with the Student of the Year Award by the American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter
04/2019 Yue Wei awarded American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter Poster Award
04/2019 Rong Zhang awarded American Statistical Association (ASA) Pittsburgh Chapter Student of the Year
04/2019 Yue Wei awarded Lifetime Data Science Conference (LiDS) Student Paper Award
03/2019 Rong Zhang is one of the five poster winners at ENAR conference
01/2019 Ge Yang’s abstract was accepted as an oral presentation and Yale Jiang’s abstract was accepted as RaPID discussion
12/2018 Tao Sun and Zhe Sun both received ENAR Distinguish Student Paper Award, which is one of the most prestigious student awards in the field of Biostatistics
11/2018 Tao Sun received CTSI Young Investigator Award for developing novel deep learning methodologies and applications from the University of Pittsburgh