Cheng Lab Team

Dr. Yong Cheng earned his BS and MA degrees from Nankai University in China and his PhD in Biochemistry and Molecualr Biology Department at Penn State University. He conducted his postdoctoral research on  comparative and functional genomics at Stanford University before joining St. Jude in 2016. He was a leading participant in the Analysis Working Group of the ENCODE Consortia, developing systematic annotations of human, work, fly, and mouse genomes. After joining St.Jude, Dr. Cheng has a growing research program that aims to understand the functions of regulatory elements in the human genome and the impact on blood development and childhood blood disorders.