Han Liang
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA
Biography
Han Liang has received his PhD in Computational Biology from Princeton University and Postdoctoral training in Computational Genomics at the University of Chicago. He is an Associate Professor and the Deputy Chair of the Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. His group has focused on the integrative analysis of cancer genomic data and the development of related bioinformatics tools. He has been very productive in terms of publications in leading journals at MD Anderson. He is the PI for multiple large government grants including NIH/NCI R01. He is the Founder and Chair of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Pan-Cancer Clinical/Predictor Working Group and Co-Leader of the International Cancer Genome Consortium (ICGC) Pan-Cancer Whole Genome Analysis Project
Abstract
Abstract : How to maximize the utility of big cancer genomic data?