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Dr. Hu, has been selected as a recipient of the 2026 The Peter Davies Travel Award. Thanks to support from the New Vision Research (NVR)！ Link

Dr. Jian Hu has been selected to attend the Charleston Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease (CCAD) this year, a highly selective international conference organized by New Vision Research (NVR). CCAD is designed to support early-career investigators with innovative ideas in Alzheimer’s disease research and has become a premier venue for fostering new collaborations and funding opportunities […]

We are thrilled to announce that Chenyang Yuan has been selected as one of the winners of the Predoctoral Trainee Research Excellence Award, and Shihan Liu has been recognized as a Semifinalist at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2025 Annual Meeting! This year’s competition was exceptionally competitive, with thousands of applicants, only 60 […]

Oral talks presented by lab members: Chenyang Yuan: mcDETECT: Characterizing mRNA Localization in Polarized Neuronal Compartments with Spatial Transcriptomics. Shihan Liu: BRIDGE: Inferring 3D Molecular Tissue Structure from Sparse Spatial Omics and Histological Sections Posters presented by lab members: Jing Huang: HAT: Automated Pathologist-Guided Label Transfer for Multi-Study, Multi-Sample, and Multi-Status Spatial Omics (Board 1109W)

Dr. Hu, has been selected as a recipient of the 2025 National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center (NACC) New Investigator Award. This highly competitive award provides funding to support innovative research in Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, thanks to support from the Alzheimer’s Association® and NACC. This year’s competition drew 138 proposals from early-career investigators across ADRCs […]

Excited to share our latest #genomics work published in Nature Communications! A fundamental question in spatial multi-omics analysis is: how exactly do molecular features shape tissue architecture? Quantitative measurement of the relationship is helpful, but not sufficient—we also need to visualize it. As humans are naturally visual thinkers, seeing how tissue structure shifts with molecular […]

Excited to share our latest #genomics work published in Nature Methods. MISO (MultI-modal Spatial Omics) is a versatile algorithm for feature extraction and clustering, capable of integrating multiple modalities from diverse spatial omics experiments with high spatial resolution. Its effectiveness is demonstrated across various datasets, encompassing gene expression, protein expression, epigenetics, metabolomics and tissue histology […]

Congratulations to Chenyang Yuan on winning 1st place in the Patel-Naik Award! This achievement is particularly impressive given the highly competitive nature of the award, with many of the contenders being senior BIOS Ph.D. students.

Dr. Hu presented on multi-layered applications of AI for detailed study of tumor microenvironments.  Link

Excited to share our new article on building and evaluating METI, an end-to-end framework for deep profiling of tumor ecosystems using spatial transcriptomics. We’ve built on our previous success in creating super-resolution gene expression images, combined with advances in interpretable computational pathology, to enable METI to map cancer cells and TME components, stratify cell types […]