Minghao Jiang | 姜 明昊

I am a second-year Ph.D. student at School of Biomedical Sciences, Li Ka Shing Faculty of medicine, The University of Hong Kong majoring in Bioinformatics. My research currently centers on two main topics: first, identifying novel structural variants to classify patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (B-ALL) using long-read sequencing; second, exploiting the mechanisms of APOBEC mutational signatures in ETV6::RUNX1/-like B-ALL. My work is supervised by Professor Jason Wong.

Prior to joining HKU, I obtained my Bachelor of Science degree in Bioinformatics from Harbin Medical University in 2019. Subsequently, I pursued my Master of Science degree in Biology at Shanghai Institute of Hematology, Ruijin Hospital, School of Medicine, Shanghai Jiao Tong University in 2022, doing research about deciphering the mechanism of leukemogenesis across various subtypes (e.g., IGH::DUX4 and MEF2D fusions). Following that, I worked as a technician for 10 months at Shanghai Institute of Immunology, where my responsibilities included sequencing platform construction.