Biography

Rays Jiang has a PhD in genomics from Wageningen University, the Netherlands. She has been a computational biologist at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Harvard University. She came to USF with the vision to establish one of the first hybrid labs to synthesize computational biology and experimental sciences. As the first genomics lab in University of South Florida, Rays Jiang lab takes on a pioneer role in establishing a viable research program; as well as pushing the frontier of genomics science. Her lab is developing innovative methods and applications of genomics technologies, including those pertinent to normal and pathological human cells. She has published in high profile journals such as Cell, Science, Nature Communications and Genome Research, and secured diverse funding sources from NIH, NSF and Gates’ foundations.