Yonghui Jia, PhD

Assistant Professor, Boston University Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Yonghui Jia studies molecular genetics and molecular immunology. She has worked at the VA Central Biorepository since 2022, which processes biospecimens for downstream applications. Before coming to BU, she worked at private genetics companies and at the Center for Advanced Molecular Diagnostics at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Her extensive array of research includes significant work in cancer genomics.

Publications

  • Published 5/19/2022

    Hanna GJ, Villa A, Mistry N, Jia Y, Quinn CT, Turner MM, Felt KD, Pfaff K, Haddad RI, Uppaluri R, Rodig SJ, Woo SB, Egloff AM, Hodi FS. Correction: Comprehensive Immunoprofiling of High-risk Oral Proliferative and Localized Leukoplakia. Cancer Res Commun. 2022 May; 2(5):390. PMID: 36875716.

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  • Published 1/2/2022

    Li YY, Schmidt RJ, Manning DK, Jia Y, Dong F. Contamination Assessment for Cancer Next-Generation Sequencing. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2022 Jan 02; 146(2):227-232. PMID: 34015814.

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  • Published 10/13/2021

    Hanna GJ, Villa A, Mistry N, Jia Y, Quinn CT, Turner MM, Felt KD, Pfaff K, Haddad RI, Uppaluri R, Rodig SJ, Woo SB, Egloff AM, Hodi FS. Comprehensive Immunoprofiling of High-Risk Oral Proliferative and Localized Leukoplakia. Cancer Res Commun. 2021 Oct; 1(1):30-40. PMID: 36860910.

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  • Published 4/4/2018

    Hou Q, Liu F, Chakraborty A, Jia Y, Prasad A, Yu H, Zhao L, Ye K, Snyder SH, Xu Y, Luo HR. Inhibition of IP6K1 suppresses neutrophil-mediated pulmonary damage in bacterial pneumonia. Sci Transl Med. 2018 Apr 04; 10(435). PMID: 29618559.

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  • Published 3/3/2017

    Garcia EP, Minkovsky A, Jia Y, Ducar MD, Shivdasani P, Gong X, Ligon AH, Sholl LM, Kuo FC, MacConaill LE, Lindeman NI, Dong F. Validation of OncoPanel: A Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Assay for the Detection of Somatic Variants in Cancer. Arch Pathol Lab Med. 2017 Jun; 141(6):751-758. PMID: 28557599.

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Education

  • National University of Singapore, PhD