Jason X Cheng
University of Chicago, USA
Biography
Jason X Cheng is an attending Hematopathologist at UCMC. He has obtained his MD and Master’s degree in China. He has received his PhD from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He has conducted the first genome-wide epigenetic profiling of DNA and histone (H3K27) methylations in MDS, which led to his winning the Pathologist-in-Training Award from the Society for Hematopathology and the Paul E. Strandjord Young Investigator Award from the Academy of Clinical Physicians and Scientists in 2008. He has published multiple papers in peer-reviewed, high-impact factor journals including Leukemia, PNAS, Immunity and Molecular Cell and received the Cancer Research Foundation Young Investigator Award in 2014.