St. Jude People

Yiping Fan, PhD

Associate Director, Functional Genomics

Director, Bioinformatics Research

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Fan was one of 18 St. Jude investigators recognized on the 2025 Web of Science (TM) list of highly cited researchers. 

Contact Information

Yiping Fan, PhD

Center for Applied Bioinformatics

MS 1122, Room IA6015

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

262 Danny Thomas Place

Memphis,  TN 38105-3678

(901) 595-5716(phone)

Affiliations

Center for Applied Bioinformatics

Education

  • PhD, Bioengineering, University of California at San Diego
  • MS, Biophyics and physiology, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  • BS, Biomedical Engineering, Zhejiang University

Research Interests

  • Bioinformatics method development and optimization
  • Biomedical application of machine learning
  • Epigenetic regulation of T-cell functions
  • Cancer immunotherapy

Patents

  • Methods for identifying and improving T cell multipotency, Filed by St Jude, patent pending
  • Novel CAR-T targets for pediatric AML, Filed by St Jude, patent pending
  • Genomic DNA based normalization method for gene expression data analysis (Patent #: WO 03/062450 A2)

St. Jude Publications