Dr. Fang [HHMI Fellow] develops multiplexed imaging techniques to illuminate how enhancers control gene expression at a single cell level. Enhancer alterations are widely spread in cancer, but there is limited understanding of how these enhancers vary between single cells and relate to oncogene expression. Dr. Fang will generate single-cell regulatory networks to investigate how enhancer activities are disrupted in IDH-mutant cancers. The proposed work may help identify enhancer-based therapeutic targets for cancer treatment in the future.
Damon Runyon Researchers
Meet Our ScientistsRongxin Fang, PhD
Project title: "Genome-scale imaging of enhancer-promoter interactions in cancer at single cell resolution"
Institution: Harvard University
Named Award: HHMI Fellow
Award Program: Fellow
Sponsor(s) / Mentor(s): Xiaowei Zhuang, PhD
Cancer Type: Brain
Research Area: Imaging