Chunlei Zheng, PhD
Voluntary Assistant Professor, Medicine
Biography
Chunlei Zheng is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Chobanian and Avedisian School of Medicine. He is also a Health Science Specialist at VA Boston Healthcare System. Dr. Zheng completed his PhD in Biophysics at Chinese Academy of Sciences. After graduation, he moved to Cleveland Clinic, where he received a postdoctoral fellowship from American Heart Association to study the protein trafficking in human diseases. Before joining Boston University, Dr. Zheng is a research scientist at Case Western Reserve University, where he received intensive biomedical informatics training.
With solid background in biology and medicine and expertise in genomics, computer science, and statistics, Dr. Zheng has great passion for data-driven biomedical discovery. In particular, he has great interest on developing/applying computational algorithm, machine learning and statistical modeling into large-scale biomedical data to facilitate disease understanding and drug discovery. Currently, his research focuses on using artificial intelligence (AI) on Alzheimer’s Disease and Cancer.
Websites
Education
- Chinese Academy of Sciences, PhD
- Shaanxi Normal University, BS
Publications
- Published on 5/8/2023
Placido D, Yuan B, Hjaltelin JX, Zheng C, Haue AD, Chmura PJ, Yuan C, Kim J, Umeton R, Antell G, Chowdhury A, Franz A, Brais L, Andrews E, Marks DS, Regev A, Ayandeh S, Brophy MT, Do NV, Kraft P, Wolpin BM, Rosenthal MH, Fillmore NR, Brunak S, Sander C. A deep learning algorithm to predict risk of pancreatic cancer from disease trajectories. Nat Med. 2023 May; 29(5):1113-1122. PMID: 37156936.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/19/2022
Li LL, Zheng C, La J, Do NV, Monach PA, Strymish JM, Fillmore NR, Branch-Elliman W. Impact of prior SARS-CoV-2 infection on incidence of hospitalization and adverse events following mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccination: A nationwide, retrospective cohort study. Vaccine. 2022 02 16; 40(8):1082-1089. PMID: 35078665.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/11/2022
Fillmore NR, La J, Zheng C, Doron S, Do NV, Monach PA, Branch-Elliman W. The COVID-19 hospitalization metric in the pre- and postvaccination eras as a measure of pandemic severity: A retrospective, nationwide cohort study. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2022 Dec; 43(12):1767-1772. PMID: 35012694.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 9/27/2021
Zheng C, Fillmore NR, Ramos-Cejudo J, Brophy M, Osorio R, Gurney ME, Qiu WQ, Au R, Perry G, Dubreuil M, Chen SG, Qi X, Davis PB, Do N, Xu R. Potential long-term effect of tumor necrosis factor inhibitors on dementia risk: A propensity score matched retrospective cohort study in US veterans. Alzheimers Dement. 2022 Jun; 18(6):1248-1259. PMID: 34569707.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/20/2021
Zheng C, Xu R. Molecular subtyping of Alzheimer's disease with consensus non-negative matrix factorization. PLoS One. 2021; 16(5):e0250278. PMID: 34014928.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/25/2021
Wang Q, Li Y, Zheng C, Xu R. DenseCNN: A Densely Connected CNN Model for Alzheimer's Disease Classification Based on Hippocampus MRI Data. AMIA Annu Symp Proc. 2020; 2020:1277-1286. PMID: 33936504.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 1/11/2021
Zhou M, Wang Q, Zheng C, John Rush A, Volkow ND, Xu R. Drug repurposing for opioid use disorders: integration of computational prediction, clinical corroboration, and mechanism of action analyses. Mol Psychiatry. 2021 09; 26(9):5286-5296. PMID: 33432189.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/21/2020
Zheng C, Berger NA, Li L, Xu R. Epigenetic age acceleration and clinical outcomes in gliomas. PLoS One. 2020; 15(7):e0236045. PMID: 32692766.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 7/1/2020
Zhou M, Zheng C, Xu R. Combining phenome-driven drug-target interaction prediction with patients' electronic health records-based clinical corroboration toward drug discovery. Bioinformatics. 2020 07 01; 36(Suppl_1):i436-i444. PMID: 32657406.
Read at: PubMed - Published on 5/8/2020
Zheng C, Xu R. Predicting cancer origins with a DNA methylation-based deep neural network model. PLoS One. 2020; 15(5):e0226461. PMID: 32384093.
Read at: PubMed
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