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Name	Chen Cao
Contact Information	caochen@njmu.edu.cn
Language ability	English, Chinese
Province	Jiangsu

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Name

Chen Cao

Contact Information

caochen@njmu.edu.cn

Language ability

English, Chinese

Province

Jiangsu

University/Lab Affiliation and Title	Nanjing Medical University
Faculty	Biomedical Engineering and Informatics
Academic Background & Achievements	2006.9–2010.6 Bachelor of Medicine: Jilin University 2011.9–2013.6 Master of Medicine: Jilin University 2013.9–2016.6 Doctor of Engineering (Computer Science and Technology): Jilin University
Work Experience	2010.7–2011.5 - Shanghai WuXi AppTec New Drug Development Co., Ltd. - Assistant Researcher in Drug Synthesis 2017.2–2021.1 - University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine - Postdoctoral Researcher 2021.2–2021.12 - Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Electronics Technology University - Specially Appointed Associate Researcher
Awards	2024: Jiangsu Province Special Prize in the Chinese University Student Computer Design Competition (Guiding Teacher Ranking: 1/2) 2024: National Second Prize in the Chinese University Student Computer Design Competition (Guiding Teacher Ranking: 1/2) 2024: Excellent Guiding Teacher of Jiangsu Province 2024: Jiangsu Province Third Prize in the Jiangsu University Student Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition (Guiding Teacher Ranking: 1/1)

University/Lab Affiliation and Title

Nanjing Medical University

Faculty

Biomedical Engineering and Informatics

Academic Background & Achievements

2006.9–2010.6 Bachelor of Medicine: Jilin University
2011.9–2013.6 Master of Medicine: Jilin University
2013.9–2016.6 Doctor of Engineering (Computer Science and Technology): Jilin University

Work Experience

2010.7–2011.5 - Shanghai WuXi AppTec New Drug Development Co., Ltd. - Assistant Researcher in Drug Synthesis
2017.2–2021.1 - University of Calgary Cumming School of Medicine - Postdoctoral Researcher
2021.2–2021.12 - Yangtze Delta Region Institute of Electronics Technology University - Specially Appointed Associate Researcher

Awards

2024: Jiangsu Province Special Prize in the Chinese University Student Computer Design Competition (Guiding Teacher Ranking: 1/2)
2024: National Second Prize in the Chinese University Student Computer Design Competition (Guiding Teacher Ranking: 1/2)
2024: Excellent Guiding Teacher of Jiangsu Province
2024: Jiangsu Province Third Prize in the Jiangsu University Student Biomedical Engineering Innovation Design Competition (Guiding Teacher Ranking: 1/1)

Areas of Focus	Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Publications	Leveraging Random Effects in Cistrome‐Wide Association Studies for Decoding the Genetic Determinants of Prostate Cancer, Shao M, Tian M, Chen K, Jiang H, Zhang S, Li Z, Shen Y, Chen F, Shen B, Cao C, Gu N, 2024 PGS-Depot: a comprehensive resource for polygenic scores constructed by summary statistics based methods, Cao C, Zhang S, Wang J, Tian M, Ji X, Huang D, Yang S, Gu N, 2024 RAVAR: a curated repository for rare variant–trait associations, Cao C, Shao M, Zuo C, Kwok D, Liu L, Ge Y, Zhang Z, Cui F, Chen M, Fan R, Ding Y, Jiang H, Wang G, Zou Q, 2024 EHR-HGCN: An Enhanced Hybrid Approach for Text Classification Using Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Networks in Electronic Health Records, Wang G, Lou X, Guo F, Kwok D, Cao C, 2023 webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study, Cao C, Wang J, Kwok D, Cui F, Zhang Z, Zhao D, Li MJ, Zou Q, 2022 WgLink: reconstructing whole-genome viral haplotypes using L0 L1 regularization, Cao C, Greenberg M, Long Q, 2021 kTWAS: integrating kernel machine with transcriptome-wide association studies improves statistical power and reveals novel genes, Cao C, Kwok D, Edie S, Li Q, Ding B, Kossinna P, Campbell S, Wu J, Greenberg M, Long Q, 2021 Reconstruction of microbial haplotypes by integration of statistical and physical linkage in scaffolding, Cao C, He J, Mak L, Perera D, Kwok D, Wang J, Li M, Mourier T, Gavriliuc S, Greenberg M, Morrissy AS, Sycuro LK, Yang G, Jeffares DC, Long Q, 2021 Power analysis of transcriptome-wide association study: Implications for practical protocol choice, Cao C, Ding B, Li Q, Kwok D, Wu J, Long Q, 2021 PRESM: personalized reference editor for somatic mutation discovery in cancer genomics, Cao C, Mak L, Jin G, Gordon P, Ye K, Long Q, 2019

Areas of Focus

Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Publications

Leveraging Random Effects in Cistrome‐Wide Association Studies for Decoding the Genetic Determinants of Prostate Cancer, Shao M, Tian M, Chen K, Jiang H, Zhang S, Li Z, Shen Y, Chen F, Shen B, Cao C*, Gu N*, 2024
PGS-Depot: a comprehensive resource for polygenic scores constructed by summary statistics based methods, Cao C, Zhang S, Wang J, Tian M, Ji X, Huang D, Yang S*, Gu N, 2024
RAVAR: a curated repository for rare variant–trait associations, Cao C*, Shao M, Zuo C, Kwok D, Liu L, Ge Y, Zhang Z, Cui F, Chen M, Fan R, Ding Y, Jiang H, Wang G*, Zou Q*, 2024
EHR-HGCN: An Enhanced Hybrid Approach for Text Classification Using Heterogeneous Graph Convolutional Networks in Electronic Health Records, Wang G, Lou X, Guo F, Kwok D, Cao C*, 2023
webTWAS: a resource for disease candidate susceptibility genes identified by transcriptome-wide association study, Cao C, Wang J, Kwok D, Cui F, Zhang Z, Zhao D, Li MJ, Zou Q*, 2022
WgLink: reconstructing whole-genome viral haplotypes using L0 L1 regularization, Cao C, Greenberg M, Long Q*, 2021
kTWAS: integrating kernel machine with transcriptome-wide association studies improves statistical power and reveals novel genes, Cao C, Kwok D, Edie S, Li Q, Ding B, Kossinna P, Campbell S, Wu J, Greenberg M, Long Q*, 2021
Reconstruction of microbial haplotypes by integration of statistical and physical linkage in scaffolding, Cao C, He J, Mak L, Perera D, Kwok D, Wang J, Li M, Mourier T, Gavriliuc S, Greenberg M, Morrissy AS, Sycuro LK, Yang G, Jeffares DC, Long Q*, 2021
Power analysis of transcriptome-wide association study: Implications for practical protocol choice, Cao C, Ding B, Li Q, Kwok D, Wu J*, Long Q*, 2021
PRESM: personalized reference editor for somatic mutation discovery in cancer genomics, Cao C, Mak L, Jin G, Gordon P, Ye K, Long Q*, 2019

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