Christine Cheng

A member of the BU faculty since 2016, Christine Cheng integrates cell and molecular biology with computational approaches to help understand and identify potential therapeutic targets to diseases including Alzheimer’s disease, HIV infection, and opioid addiction. Her current projects are focused on massively-parallel single-cell transcriptomic and epigenetic profiling. Christine has recently received significant grant support from NIH. She is a past recipient of the NIH’s Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Fellowship and has published numerous articles in top journals including Nature Genetics, Nature Communications, Science Signaling, and Cell Systems. She is a graduate of National Taiwan University and holds a PhD in bioinformatics and systems biology from University of California, San Diego and an MS in computer science from Stanford University.