2020

 

11/5/2020 - A collaborative study with Prashant Mali's group was published on Cell,  demonstrating teratoma as a powerful model for modeling human development and engineering human tissues.

7/21/2020 - A collaborative study with Singlera and Fudan University showed early detection of cancer in blood 1-4 years before the conventional diagnosis, published on Nature Communications, featured on NBC, Guardian, Scientific American, Union Tribune, and 100+ others. It was selected as one of the top-10 health innovations for the year of 2020.

01/07/2020 - Single-cell multi-omics analysis was named the Method of the Year by Nature Method.

 

 

2019

 

11/25/2019 - UC San Diego Bioengineering Department Makes Strong Showing in List of Highly Cited Researchers Around the World.

10/14/2019 - Song's SNARE-seq paper came out online at Nature Biotechnology. [A commentary by La Manno]

7/01/2019 - As part of the NIDDK Kidney Precision Medicine Project, an initial draft of human kidney single-cell atlas was published on Nature Communications.

 

 

2018

12/26/2018 - Yan's SWNE paper was published as a cover article on [Cell Systems], and the peer-review process ended up being a positive examples.

11/02/2018 - The Zhang Lab received major NIH awards for single-cell mapping of human organs [UCSD JSOE].

 

 

2017

12/11/2017 - Our recent work by Blue, Song and Brandon on a newer version of single-cell human brain map was published on Nature Biotechnology. [UCSD JSOE]

10/24/2017 - Eric's work on ultra-accurate single-cell genome sequencing was published on PNAS. [UCSD JSOE]

03/06/17 - Shicheng & Dinh's work on methylation haplotyping of normal tissues and cancers was on Nature Genetics. [UCSD JSOE, Global NewsSingtao Daily, UK Daily Mail, Hindustan Times, Medical Research, NBC, VOA, GenomeWeb, San Diego CW6, Newsweek, UK Independent,WebMD].

 

2016

06/23/16 - Our work on human brain single-nucleus transcriptome sequencing was published on Science. [GenomeWeb; The Scientist; SD Union Tribune].

02/04/16 - Brandon's THS-seq method was published on Genome Biology.

2014

08/24/14 -  Noi & Dinh's review on DNA methylation analysis appeared on Nature Review Genetics.

08/01/14 - The Zhang, Huang and Bafna groups won a R01 grant under the NHGRI Advanced DNA Sequencing Technology program to develop a next-generation single-cell sequencing technology

 

 

2012

2009

03/29/09 - Ida's paper on targeted methylation analysis of stem cells appeared on Nature Biotechnology. It is highlighted inNBT,NMeth, GenomeWeb.

2008

10/07/08 - The Zhang lab was awarded a technology development grant from the NIH Human Microbiome Project.

09/30/08 - The Zhang lab received a NIH RoadMap grant to study epigenetic reprogramming in stem cells.

09/09/08 - Dr. "Ida" Jie Deng received a CIRM-UCSD Post-doctoral Fellowship for stem cell research.

2007

12/03/07 - Prof. Zhang was profiled as one of the Rising Young Investigators by Genome Technology.

10/14/07 - A method for targeted exonome resequencing was published online at Nature Methods.