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 News, Singtao 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
2013
11/10/13 - Jeff's work on MIDAS appeared on Nature Biotechnology [UCSD JSOE Press Release; GenomeWeb, NIH Director's Blog, NMeth Method of the Year].
2012
11/28/12 - Athurva became a Siebel Scholar.
11/13/12 - Rui and Dinh's study of the roles of Tet1 on germ cells appeared on Nature.
10/16/12 - The Zhang lab leads a Single Cell Genomics Center funded by the NIH Roadmap Program.
04/23/12 - The Hottest Research of 2011.
2011
12/20/11 - San Diego Union Tribune: A look into the future of genetic medicine.
12/9/11 - Time Magazine - Top 10 Medical Breakthroughs: Scientists use cloning to create stem cells. [Link to the paper]
6/1/11 - Genome Technology: To Map a Methylome.[PDF]
5/27/11 - Nature Methods: Microarray, megasynthesis.
5/4/11 - Nearly 30 Percent of New CIRM Awards go to UC San Diego Stem Cell Researchers.
4/4/11 - Gene Correcting does not substantially Increase Stem Cell Mutations.
3/10/11 - Five more years of Nature Biotechnology research.
3/2/11 - Athurva & Alice's work on hiPS mutations appeared on Nature. Commentary & Press: Nature; NRG; NRC; MIT TR;GenomeWeb; SD Union Tribute; LA Times; NPR Science Friday
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.