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Xue Zhong, PhD, is Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Genetic Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology in the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Dr. Zhong’s early work focused on spatial models used to estimate plasmid transmission rates in surface-attached bacterial populations with spatial heterogeneity of cell-to-cell contact. She also utilizes network-based approaches to address health-related problems such as pertussis epidemiology and tumor subtype classification. Her work on the development of a mathematical model that incorporates a detailed age-specific contact network has led to an explanation for the enigmatic changing pattern of pertussis incidence in Sweden in the vaccine era.
Her recent work on tumor subtype classification revealed the effectiveness of using small panels of cancer genes for tumor subtyping in comparison to interrogating all genes for mutations in coding regions. She has also collaborated on multiple projects including human microbiome, cancer, and genotyping. Dr. Zhong’s current research focus is leveraging biobank and electronic health records to investigate human disease comorbidity, disease progression, and the underlying genetic architecture via the use of computational and statistical methods.
Publications
Education
MS - Mathmatics - University of Idaho, 2005
PhD - Bioinformatics & Computational Biology - University of Idaho, 2009
MS - Biostatistics - Vanderbilt University, 2015
Contact
Email
Kimryn.Rathmell@Vumc.Org
Address
777 Preston Research Building
2220 Pierce Ave
Nashville, TN 37232-6307