Jinghui Zhang
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital has appointed Jinghui Zhang the first chair of the Department of Computational Biology. Zhang joined St. Jude in 2010, leading the effort to analyze PCGP data and the creation of several new computational tools that have been adopted by biologists worldwide. Prior to her work at St. Jude, she led genetic variation analysis of the first assembled human genome. She also contributed to key discoveries in the pilot phases of the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Genome Atlas Project and the Therapeutically Applicable Research to Generate Effective Treatment initiative.