Hu, Sheng'en Shawn
Primary Appointment
Assistant Professor, Genome Sciences
Education
- Ph.D, Tongji University
Contact Information
Telephone: 4349248430
Email: sh8tv@virginia.edu
Research Disciplines
Bioinformatics and Genomics, Biology, Cancer Biology, Computational Biology, Genetics, Immunology
Research Interests
Computational biology
Bioinformatics
Cancer immune therapy
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy
Cancer epigenetics
Method development
Single-cell Genomics
Transcriptional regulation
Chromatin accessibility
Research Description
Sheng’en Shawn Hu, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor of Genome Sciences since 2024. He has a training background in computational biology and expertise in modeling next-generation DNA sequencing data at bulk, single-cell, and spatial levels to understand how human cells are developed and regulated. He also investigates the machinery of gene regulation by analyzing super-resolution microscopy data. His work has contributed to understanding a wide range of subjects in molecular immunology, such as how the immune system responds to threats, how cancer develops and interacts with immunotherapy, and how immune cells function during lung COVID-19 infections. He continues to innovate new methods that use various high-throughput data to deepen our understanding of molecular biology and immunology.
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JwXm75kAAAAJ