Prof.Rong Fan
Presentation Title: Spatial Multi-Omics to Decode Tissue Development, Aging, and Disease Biography: Dr. Rong Fan is the Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Pathology at at Yale University. He received a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley, completed his postdoctoral training at California Institute of Technology, and then joined the faculty in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Yale University in 2010. His latest contributions to science and engineering include the development of microfabricated devices for singlecell and spatial omics and the application to human cancer research, immunology, and immuno-oncology. He developed a microdevice for simultaneous measurement of 42 immune effector proteins in single cells at high throughput, which remains the highest multiplexing to date for a single-cell protein secretion assay. His latest contribution to systems biology and bioengineering is the development of the spatial multi-omics sequencing technology for genome scale mapping of gene expression and hundreds of proteins at cellular level, and the first-of-its-kind technology to enable the field of spatial epigenomics with the development of spatial-CUT&Tag, spatial-ATAC-seq, and spatial epigenome transcriptome co-sequencing, which are commercially available at AtlasXomics, adding a whole new dimension to the emerging field of spatial omics. He is the recipient of multiple awards including the NCI Howard Temin Career Transition Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Packard Fellowship for Science and Engineering, and the 2024 BMES CMBE Momentum Award. He has been elected to the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE), the Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering (CASE), and the National Academy of Inventors (NAI). |
