Chenghao Zhu
Chenghao Zhu

Research Assistant Professor

Chenghao Zhu is a Research Assistant Professor in the NCI-designated Cancer Center at Sanford Burnham Prebys. His research focuses on developing computational methods and software for proteogenomics and applying proteogenomics to cancer diagnosis, prognosis, and clinico-epidemiologic questions.
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Experience

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California, Los Angeles

Department of Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine, and Cancer Data Science, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Developed computational methods and scalable workflows for cancer proteogenomics, including moPepGen, NFTest, and the DNA and RNA meta-pipelines.
Proteogenomics Bioinformatics Workflow development

Postdoctoral Fellow

University of California, Davis

Department of Nutrition. Developed computational pipelines for circulating extracellular RNA analysis and software for analyzing, manipulating, and visualizing quantitative high-throughput omics experiments.
Extracellular RNA Multi-omics Software development

Education

PhD in Nutritional Biology

University of California, Davis

MS in Food Science and Technology

University of California, Davis

BS in Applied Biological Science

Zhejiang University

Research

I develop computational methods and open-source software that connect genomic and transcriptomic variation to the proteins expressed by tumors. My work focuses on making proteogenomic analysis comprehensive, reproducible, and scalable—from workflow engineering and non-canonical peptide identification to the interpretation of cancer genomes and proteomes.

I apply these methods to questions in cancer diagnosis, prognosis, treatment response, sex differences, and neoantigen discovery. I am particularly interested in translating robust computational tools into biological and clinical insight.

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Affiliation

Cancer Genome and Epigenetics Program

NCI-Designated Cancer Center

Center for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

La Jolla, California, USA

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