Mengjie Chen,PhD , Assistant Professor of Medicine (Genetic Medicine) has been named as one of four University of Chicago faculty to receive a prestigious Sloan Fellowship, awarded to early-career scholars whose achievements and potential mark them as the next scientific leaders .
Dr. Chen is a computational biologist and statistician whose research bridges statistical methodological advances and biomedical applications. She and her group develop computational methods and open-source tools to address challenges posed by high-throughput genomics technologies for data analysis and interpretation. The ultimate goal is to develop methods that can integrate genomic features into the prediction of clinical outcomes, which will potentially shed new light on personalized disease diagnosis and prognosis.
Given annually since 1955 by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the fellowships are awarded in close coordination with the scientific community. Candidates must be nominated by their fellow scientists, and fellows are selected by an independent panel of senior scholars on the basis of a candidate’s independent research accomplishments, creativity and potential. Each of this year’s 126 winners, announced Feb. 19, receive a two-year, $70,000 grant to further their innovative research.
Originally reported in UChicago News on 2/22/2019