Organizing Committee Member
Jason Cheng
Assistant Professor
University of Chicago
USA
Biography
Dr. Jason Cheng obtained his medical training in China, a Ph.D. from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and post-doctoral training in Molecular Biology from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. He also completed his residency training in Anatomic/Clinical Pathology and Hematopathology fellowship at University of Chicago (UChicago). He is an Attending Hematopathologist in the UChicago Medical Center. Some highlights of his academic career includes 1) invention of a novel technology for identifying sequence-specific DNA-binding peptides (US patent no 5,869,250, 1999); 2) discovery of the loss of INI1/hSNF5/BAF47/SMARCB1 as a hallmark for renal medullary carcinoma (Modern Pathology, 2008); 3) receiving the 2008 Pathologist-in-Training Award and the 2008 Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award for conducting the first genome-wide epigenetic profiling in clinical MDS specimens; and 4) the 2018 Michael Reese Bench-to-Bedside Translational Science Award for RNA epigenetic research and the 2019 Taub Medical Award for MDS research.
Research Area
Digital Pathology