Dr. Duan is currently a Research Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology and a member of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Washington. Dr. Duan received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and B.S. in Biotechnology at Hua Zhong University of Science and Technology. He has a long-standing interest in the relationship between the form and function of human genomes during development and tumorigenesis, with a recent focus on developing routinely affordable high throughput tools for globally mapping chromatin interactions in mammalian cells and to adapt these tools for characterizing structural relationships among functional elements in human cells.
