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Hua-Sheng Chiu

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Hua-Sheng Chiu, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Positions

Assistant Professor
Pediatrics-Oncology
Texas Children's Hospital, ÌÇÐÄÊÓÆµ of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States

Addresses

Texas Children's Hospital - Feigin Center (Office)
1102 Bates Avenue
Room: TXFC-C1220.10
Houston, TX, 77030
United States

Education

PhD from Columbia University in the City of New York
12/2013 - New York, New York, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics - Bioinformatics track
MPH from Columbia University in the City of New York
06/2012 - New York, New York, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics - Bioinformatics track
MA from Columbia University in the City of New York
10/2011 - New York, New York, United States
Department of Biomedical Informatics - Bioinformatics track

Honors & Awards

Young Investigator Travel Fellowship Award
Symposia on Cancer Research: Genomic Medicine (10/2013)
Travel Fellowship Award
The RNA Society (05/2015)
Honorary Member
The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
Cancers 2020 Outstanding Reviewer Awards
MDPI (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute) (01/2020 - 12/2020)
Editorial Review Board
SAGE Journals: Technology in Cancer Research & Treatment (TCRT) (12/2021)
Editorial Review Board
MDPI Journals: Cancers (06/2020)
Editorial Review Board
MDPI Journals: Microorganisms (12/2020)
Editorial Review Board
MDPI Journals: Non-Coding RNA (01/2021)
Graduate Student Fellowship
Columbia University in the City of New York (09/2009 - 08/2010)
Best Master’s Thesis Award
Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence
Studying Abroad Scholarship
Ministry of Education, Taiwan (09/2009 - 08/2011)
Undergraduate Graduation with Distinction (1%)
National Central University

Professional Interests

  • MicroRNA
  • Long noncoding RNA
  • Competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA)
  • Computational systems biology of cancer
  • Integrative genomics
  • Machine learning
  • Data science

Websites

Prediction of ceRNA interactions
Simultaneous prediction of miRNA-targets and ceRNAs
Prediction of regulation by lncRNA including decoy, cofactor, guide, and switch

Professional Development

Keystone Symposia: MicroRNAs and Noncoding RNAs in Cancer
Conference (Participant, 2015)
RNA 2015
Conference (Participant, 2015)
Cell Symposia: Regulatory RNAs
Conference (Presenter, 2011)
Symposia on Cancer Research: ncRNA in Disease and Cancer
Conference (Participant, 2014)
American Society of Human Genetics
Conference (Participant, 2013)
Symposia on Cancer Research: Genomic Medicine
Conference (Participant, 2013)
Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Symposium
Conference (Presenter, 2013)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Meeting on Systems Biology: Networks
Conference (Participant, 2013)
The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) 1st Annual Scientific Symposium
Conference (Participant, 2011)
International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)
Conference (Participant, 2004)
RECOMB Satellite Joint Conference on Systems Biology and Regulatory Genomics
Conference (Participant, 2010)
IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE)
Conference (Participant, 2009)
Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference
Conference (Participant, 2006)

Selected Publications

  • Chiu HS *, Somvanshi S *, et al. " " Cell Reports. 2018 Apr 3; 23 (1) : 297-312.
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  • Chiu HS *, Llobet-Navas D *, et al. " " Genome Research. 2015 Feb 10; 25 (2) : 257-67.
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  • Sumazin P *, Yang X *, Chiu HS *, et al. " " Cell. 2011 Oct 14; 147 (2) : 370-381.
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  • Chiu HS et al. " " BMC Genomics. 2017 May 30; 18 (1) : 418.
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Memberships

The RNA Society
Member (01/2015 - 12/2015)
The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG)
Member (10/2013 - 10/2014)
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Member (02/2012 - 01/2014)
Taiwan Association for Artificial Intelligence (TAAI)
The Lifetime Membership (09/2004)

Skills

Programming language: C/C++, MATLAB, R
Molecular Biology: Cell Culture, Western Blot, qRT-PCR, Proliferation Assay, Migration Assay
Analysis of large-scale data, e.g., RNA-Seq or small RNA-Seq

Languages

Chinese (Mandarin), Chinese (Min)

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