Jinghui Zhang | |
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Alma mater |
Fudan University University of Connecticut |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Computational biology |
Institutions | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
Jinghui Zhang is a Chinese computational biologist who is the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
Zhang earned a B.S. from Fudan University in 1989. [1] She completed a M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. (1994) from the University of Connecticut. [1] Her dissertation was titled, Developing an Interactive Graphic Environment to Browse and Edit Integrated Genome Data. [2] Claire M. Berg was her doctoral advisor. [2]
Zhang is a computational biologist who researches large-scale genomic data and disease progression. [1] She joined the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in 2010. [3] From 2015 to 2023, she was chair of the computational biology department. [3] Zhang is the St. Jude Endowed Chair in Bioinformatics at the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. [1] She was elected a fellow of the International Society for Computational Biology in 2023. [3]