Qian Zhu

Qian Zhu is an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine in the Department of Molecular Genetics. He earned a BSc in Computer Science and Biochemistry from the University of Ottawa, a PhD in Computational Biology from Princeton University, and completed postdoctoral training at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School.

• Research Focus: Computational Biology, Cancer Genomics, Spatial Transcriptomics
• Key Projects: Spatial Multiomic Integration, Triple Negative Breast Cancer Disparities, Chromatin Structure Analysis, Software Development

Recent Trends: His 15 most recent publications (2025-2018) focus on spatial transcriptomics tools (Giotto, Xenomake), cancer disparities research, chromatin structure analysis, and computational methods for single-cell data integration. These works reflect expertise in machine learning application to biomedical imaging, tumor microenvironment characterization, and epigenetic regulation.

• 2025: Spatial omics analysis of racial disparities in TNBC
• 2024: BCL11A tetramer function, xenograft data processing
• 2023: CRISPR screening in leukemia
• 2022: Chromatin regulators in developmental disease

Awards:

• 2025 - Marion R. Wright Award for Scientific Excellence
• 2022 - CPRIT Tenure-Track Faculty Recruitment Award

Collaborations: Works with experimental biologists on tumor progression, therapy resistance, and hematopoietic development. His lab includes bioinformatics programmers and graduate students.