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The CBDG lab is led by the PI, Dr. Ya Cui, with around many highly motivated graduate and undergraduate students. Our lab develops and applies innovative computational and statistical methods to address fundamental questions in biomedical sciences using large-scale genomic and biobank data.
Recent News
February 5th, 2026
Good News
Our NIH RC2 grant application (Dr. Cui as Co-I) has been reviewed and got impact score 22. Scores between 10 and 30 are generally considered most likely to be funded.
February 5th, 2026
Good News
Our NIH R01 grant application on APA (Dr. Cui as Co-I) has been reviewed and got 8th percentile.
February 5th, 2026
Good News
Our NIH grant application on tandem repeats (Dr. Cui as PI) has selected to advance to the second round! In this highly competitive funding mechanism, only applications scoring within the 13th percentile were invited to proceed to the second round.
February 4th, 2026
New Member
Welcome Dr. Xinzhi Hu! Dr. Hu is a new postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cui's lab. She earned her B.S. in Biology at Tsinghua University and M.D. in Clinical Medicine at Peking Union Medical College, Division of Neurology. Dr. Hu's research focus on uncoving new genetics risk variants/genes in brain diosders, such as neurodegenerative and cerebrovascular diseases.
January 20th, 2026
New Member
Welcome Dr. Cong Liu! Dr. Liu is a new postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Cui's lab. She earned her PhD in Computational Biology at Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2020. During her PhD and postdoctoral work, Cong studied RNA modifications, multi-omic data mining and big data analytics. She is generally interested in Bioinformatics and genomics applied to RNA biology.
January 10th, 2026
New Member
Welcome Abinaya Ravi! Abinaya Ravi is a undergraduate student in Computer Science at UC Irvine. Her research currently focuses on developing bioinformatics algorithms for analyzing epigenetic data and RNA regulation.