{"id":15968,"date":"2019-03-28T18:49:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=15968"},"modified":"2025-09-30T08:09:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T12:09:57","slug":"christine-cheng","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/profile\/christine-cheng\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Cheng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>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\u00a0to diseases including Alzheimer\u2019s 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.\u00a0She is a past recipient of the NIH\u2019s Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Fellowship\u00a0and has published numerous articles in top journals including Nature Genetics,\u00a0Nature Communications,\u00a0Science Signaling, and\u00a0Cell 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8550,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8550"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39074,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/15968\/revisions\/39074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}