Youping Deng

1999-2002      Postdoctoral Fellow, Cancer and Diabetes, Department of Biology, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI

1995-1998     Ph.D., Molecular Biology in Pharmacology, Peking Union Medical College (PUMC) & Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences (CAMS), Beijing, China.

CERTIFICATION AND LICENSURE

2001-2002  Successfully completed the Programs of Certified Bioinformatics Specialist/Master from National Bioinformatics Institute

Youping Deng, PhD, is currently tenured full Professor, Director of Bioinformatics Core in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences of the University of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine. He currently serves as the Director of Data Science Core at Hawaii INBRE. He is also the Co-Director of NIH funded Pacific Center for Genome Research. Before joining University of Hawaii in 2016, he was Director of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Associate Professor at Rush University Medical Center.  Dr. Deng is well trained in genomics, computer science, and bioinformatics. He has over 23 years of experience in bioinformatics data analysis and management. He has taught bioinformatics and data science courses and trained bioinformatics and data science PhD students and postdocs.  He received his Ph.D. from Peking Union Medical College and finished his postdoctoral training at Wayne State University. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. His research is mainly focused on cancer genomics, biomarkers, bioinformatics tools, using AI, bioinformatics and experimental approaches.

Funding and Grants:

Ongoing and recently completed projects that I would like to highlight include:

1R01CA230514  NIH, Deng (PI)

08/01/2019–07/31/2025    

Circulating Lipid and miRNA Markers for Early Detection of Breast Cancer among Women with Abnormal Mammograms.  

1 R01 CA223490 NIH, Deng (PI) 

09/01/2018-08/31/2025    

Profiling genome-wide circulating ncRNAs for the early detection of lung cancer

The goal of this project is to identify circulating ncRNAs for the early detection of lung cancer

U54HG013243 NIH, Wu/Deng (PI)

09/2023-05/2028

Pacific Center for Genome Research

P20GM103466, NIH, Deng (PI)

05/01/2023-04/30/2028

Data Science Core for Biomedical Research 

T32DK137523, NIH, Deng (Contact PI)

09/2023-08/2028

The Hawaii Advanced Training in Artificial Intelligence for Precision Nutrition Science Research (HAIPrN)

UE5HG013826, NIH Deng (Contact PI)

09/17/2024-08/31/2027

Pacific Computational Genomics and Data Sciences Research Education Program

P30CA071789, NIH, Ueno (PI),  Role: Co-Leader of the Genomics & Bioinformatics Shared Resource                            

09/01/2024-07/31/2029

University of Hawaii Cancer Center CCSG

1R01CA262460, NIH, Kwee (PI), Role: Co-I

07/01/2021-06/30/2028

Evaluation of treatment predictors reflecting beta-catenin activation in hepatocellular carcinoma

Presentations: 115

Peer-reviewed abstracts: 105