{"id":1437,"date":"2016-09-01T14:30:24","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T18:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/?page_id=1437"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:15:40","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T16:15:40","slug":"jiarui-zhang","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/jiarui-zhang\/","title":{"rendered":"Jiarui Zhang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/compbiomed\/files\/2016\/09\/Jiarui-Zhang-Website.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"98\" height=\"149\" class=\" wp-image-1439 alignright\" alt=\"Jiarui Zhang - Website\" src=\"\/compbiomed\/files\/2016\/09\/Jiarui-Zhang-Website.png\" \/><\/a><strong>Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular and Translational Medicine, BUSM<br \/>\nSpira-Lenburg Lab<\/strong><\/p>\n<h4>Education<\/h4>\n<p>Bachelor of Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2015<\/p>\n<h4>Contact Information<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Email:\u00a0<\/strong>zjr@bu.edu<\/p>\n<h4>Research Interests<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Characterizing bronchial airway gene signatures in different types of lung carcinomas.<\/strong>\u00a0We are using microarrays to analyze bronchial epithelial gene expression from lung cancer patients, and investigate whether aspects from the airway field of injury among lung cancer patients reflects tumor cell type or other aspects of tumor biology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Identifying genetic profiles that distinguish screen-detected from non-screen-detected lung cancers<\/strong>.\u00a0We use whole exome sequencing to compare genetic profiles (e.g. gene expressions, somatic mutations) of tumor tissues from early stage screen-detected lung cancers vs. non-screen-detected cancers, with an aim to better understand factors underlying tumor indolence or aggression that lead to different clinical outcomes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. Candidate, Molecular and Translational Medicine, BUSM Spira-Lenburg Lab Education Bachelor of Medicine, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2015 Contact Information Email:\u00a0zjr@bu.edu Research Interests Characterizing bronchial airway gene signatures in different types of lung carcinomas.\u00a0We are using microarrays to analyze bronchial epithelial gene expression from lung cancer patients, and investigate whether aspects from the airway field [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11679,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":28,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11679"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1750,"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1437\/revisions\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/compbiomed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}