News

2025-09-19: Our method JADE has been accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (Top Machine Learning Conference)!

2025-09-16: Our latest commentary paper was published in Nature Methods: Bridging histology and spatial gene expression across scales.

2025-09-01: Our lab has received three grants from NIH and NSF, including the MIRA ESI R35 Outstanding Investigator Award from NIGMS and two NSF grants. These awards will support five years of our lab’s research. More details: Brown SPH news and CCMB news.

2025-08-05: Andrew Yang’s work has been selected as a contributed poster at JSM 2025! He also won the Best Student Poster Award at NESS 2025!

2025-07-01: Ying Ma named to the endowed Edens Family Assistant Professorship in Healthcare Communications and Technology!

2025-06-02: Andrew Yang’s work was selected for a contributed talk at NESS 2025!

2025-06-02: Andrew Yang’s work received the Best Student Poster Award at NESS 2025!

2025-04-15: Dr. Ma was honored to be selected as a [Forbeck Scholar]!(https://thepathologist.com/inside-the-lab/all-eyes-on-iris).

2024-08-06: Chichun (TJ) Tan gave a talk about his project at JSM 2024!

2024-07-01: Vivek Rajani received the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA) for Summer 2024; Faith Shim for Spring 2024; and both Andrew Yang and Seowon Chang for Fall 2024.

2024-06-06: Our method, IRIS, was published in Nature Methods! Also see: IRIS AI and The Pathologist.

2024-04-18: Our method, IRIS, was accepted by Nature Methods. We look forward to seeing it published!

2024-03-21: Ying received the American Cancer Society Institutional Research Grant (ACS-IRG) pilot award!

2024-03-15: Chichun (TJ) Tan gave a talk about his project at ENAR 2024!

2023-08-01: Ying started her Assistant Professor position at Brown University!

2022-10-08: Our paper on polygenic risk score analysis for common health-related exposures was published in The American Journal of Human Genetics!

2022-05-18: Our collaborative paper on the distributional properties of spatially resolved expression count data was published in Genome Biology!

2022-05-02: Our method, CARD, was published in Nature Biotechnology!

2021-11-02: Our review paper on statistical methods in genetic risk prediction of complex traits was selected as the cover paper in Trends in Genetics, with cover art designed by us!

2021-09-16: Our collaborative paper on cross-ancestry polygenic risk score analysis was published in PLOS Genetics!

2020-11-05: Our collaborative paper on polygenic risk score analysis for 35 common cancer traits was published in The American Journal of Human Genetics!

2020-03-27: Our method, iDEA, which performs integrative DE and GSEA analysis, was published in Nature Communications!

2019-12-10: Our collaborative paper benchmarking 18 dimensionality reduction methods on 30 public scRNA-seq datasets was published in Genome Biology!