Hi, I’m Juechen (Jason) Yang, PhD, a Bioinformatics Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center with a strong background in software engineering and computational biology.

My research focuses on developing computational methods and machine learning models for cancer genomics, single-cell/spatial transcriptomics, and drug discovery.

• PhD, Biomedical Informatics – University of Cincinnati (2025)

• PDX database for pediatric cancers (pedtranscriptome.org)
• PRADA, a gene fusion detection tool (GitHub)
• ceSAR, an ultra fast in silico approach for drug discovery (sig2lead.net)

• Copper drives remodeling of metabolic state and progression of ccRCC. Cancer Discovery (2024) doi
• Accelerating drug discovery and repurposing by combining transcriptional signature connectivity with docking. Science Advances (2024) doi
• PCAT: Portal for genomic & preclinical testing data of pediatric cancer PDX models. Nucleic Acids Research (2021) doi
• Full list on Google Scholar

• Email: [email protected]
• Location: Cincinnati, OH
• GitHub: juechenyang