Biography:

Kaifu received Ph.D. training in Genomics at the Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He performed postdoctoral research at the Baylor College of medicine. He then joined the Houston Methodist Hospital and Weill Cornell Medical College as an Assistant Professor, and later became the Director of their Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. He finally moved to Harvard Medical School at Boston Children’s Hospital as an Associate Professor and is now directing their Computational Biology Program. Kaifu’s major research interest is in computational modeling of how cell identity is established, maintained, and dysregulated.