| Sep 01, 2026 | Chong Wu has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in the Department of Biostatistics at MD Anderson, effective September 1, 2026. Many thanks to our lab members, collaborators, and mentors for their support! |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Chong Wu has been named a 2026 Andrew Sabin Family Fellow by MD Anderson. The Andrew Sabin Family Fellowship supports emerging scientists and clinicians making breakthrough discoveries in cancer research and patient care. Thank you to the Andrew Sabin Family Foundation for the support! |
| May 20, 2026 | We’re grateful to have received API credits from Anthropic’s AI for Science Program to support our work on AI agents and DNA foundation models. Thank you, Anthropic! |
| Mar 16, 2026 | Our data resource paper, “An atlas of genetic effects on the monocyte methylome across European and African populations” (Co-corresponding author: Hui Shen and Hong-Wen Deng), has been accepted in Genome Medicine. Congrats to Wanheng and Chuan (Tulane University)! |
| Mar 06, 2026 | Our Bayesian method ZI-HGT for spatial transcriptomics, “A Zero-Inflated Hierarchical Generalized Transformation Model to Address Non-Normality in Spatially-Informed Cell-Type Deconvolution” (Co-corresponding author: Jonathan Bradley ), has been accepted in Biometrics. Big congrats to Hunter! |
| Jan 26, 2026 | Our Meta-Router, “Meta-Router: Bridging Gold-standard and Preference-based Evaluations in Large Language Model Routing” (Co-corresponding author: Yichi Zhang), has been accepted in ICLR 2026. |
| Dec 09, 2025 | Thinking Machines Lab provides a small grant for comptuational resources in Tinker for supporting our fine-tuning efforts. Thank you, Thinking Machines Lab! |
| Oct 30, 2025 | Our Mendelian randomization method, CARE, “Winner’s Curse Free Robust Mendelian Randomization with Summary Data” (Co-corresponding author: Jingshen Wang), has been accepted in Journal of the American Statistical Association. Big congratulations, Zhongming (UC Berekely) and Wanheng! See the software at https://chongwulab.github.io/MRcare/. |
| Oct 20, 2025 | Our DNA foundation benchmarking paper, “Benchmarking DNA Foundation Models for Genomic and Genetic Tasks” (Co-corresponding author: Peng Wei), has been accepted in Nature Communications. Congratulations on your hard work, Haonan! |
| Aug 01, 2025 | Our pilot grant titled “Novel Large Language Models for Discovering Effective Drug Targets in Prostate Cancer” has been awarded by U Foundation. Thank you for supporting our work in using LLMs to accelerate drug discovery! |
| Nov 01, 2024 | Our trans-PWAS work has been selected by ASHG for a platform talk. Congratulations, Zichen! |
| Sep 15, 2024 | Our U01 grant, “Uncovering Causal Protein Markers to Characterize Pancreatic Cancer Etiology and Improve Risk Prediction” (MPI: Lang Wu and Chong Wu), has been awarded by the NCI! |
| Jul 01, 2022 | Our R01 grant, “Uncovering causal protein markers to improve prostate cancer etiology understanding and risk prediction in Africans and Europeans” (MPI: Lang Wu and Chong Wu), has been awarded by the NCI! |