Hyunghoon Cho, PhD, assistant professor, and Haoyu Cheng, PhD, assistant professor, both in the Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science, have received a U01 award from the National Human Genome Research Institute of the National Institutes of Health totaling approximately $1.97 million.
The award funds the project "Computational Tools for Population-Scale Assembly and Genotyping with Pangenomes," which develops scalable computational methods for population-scale human pangenome assembly and analysis. The work integrates advances in genome assembly, genotyping of complex genomic regions, and privacy-enhancing technologies. The goal is to support secure joint analysis of genomic data across institutions and improve the study of clinically important, highly variable regions of the human genome. The three-year project runs through April 2029.