Chongzhi Zang
About
Dr. Chongzhi Zang is a Professor in the Department of Genome Sciences, with courtesy appointments in the Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics. He is the inaugural Director of Computational Genomics at the UVA Comprehensive Cancer Center.
Chongzhi is a computational biologist with expertise in cancer epigenetics and chromatin biology. His research focuses on developing computational methods for high-throughput genomics data analysis and using data science approaches to study chromatin and transcriptional regulation in mammalian cell systems and human diseases including cancer. With a training background in physics, Chongzhi did his undergraduate research in high-field laser physics with Jie Zhang at the Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his PhD research in biological physics and computational epigenomics with Weiqun Peng at the George Washington University and Keji Zhao at the National Institutes of Health. Prior to joining UVA in 2016, he completed his postdoctoral training with Xiaole Shirley Liu at Harvard University's Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.
Education
B.S., Physics, Peking University, 2005
Ph.D., Physics, The George Washington University, 2010
Postdoc, Computational Biology, Harvard University, 2016
Using innovative computational approaches, we aim to uncover the fundamental principles hidden behind the vast data generated by emerging biotechnologies, to advance biology towards a more quantitative science, and to help guide precision medicine to improve human health.