Areas of Focus
- Design of programmable nucleic acid probes and their application in precision cancer diagnostics
- Development of new technologies for genomics and transcriptomics and their application in early cancer diagnosis and postoperative monitoring
- DNA data storage and molecular information systems
Work Experience
- 2016-07 to 2017-07 - Rice University, Postdoctoral Researcher
- 2017-08 to 2021 - Rice University, Assistant Research Scientist
- 2019-01 to 2021 - NuProbe Inc (USA), Senior Research Scientist (part-time)
- 2021 to present - Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Biomedical Engineering
Academic Background & Achievements
- PhD: Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Recipient of national high-level talents youth program
- Outstanding innovation and entrepreneurship mentor by the Ministry of Education
Publications
- Enhanced Detection of Novel Low-Frequency Gene Fusions via High-Yield Ligation and Multiplexed Enrichment Sequencing, Ping Song*, 2024
- Extended Enrichment for Ultrasensitive Detection of Low-Frequency Mutations by Long Blocker Displacement Amplification, Ping Song*, 2024
- Programming super DNA-enzyme molecules for on-demand enzyme activity modulation, Ping Song*, 2023
- Selecting aptamers with programmed affinities, Ping Song*, 2023
- Limitations and opportunities of technologies for the analysis of cell-free DNA in cancer diagnostics, Ping Song*, 2022
- Detection and quantitation of low fraction DNA variants via low-depth sequencing using multiplexed allele enrichment, Ping Song*, 2021
- Programming bulk enzyme heterojunctions for biosensor development with tetrahedral DNA framework, Ping Song*, 2020
- Encapsulating living tumor cells with hybridization chain reaction, Ping Song*, 2020
- Electrochemical detection of nucleic acids, proteins, small molecules and cells using a DNA-nanostructure-based universal biosensing platform, Ping Song*, 2016
