Gang Fang

Gang Fang, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Genetics and Genomic Science at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, in New York City. His lab develops long read sequencing and systems biology approaches to study the epigenomes of bacteria, microbiome and human, to understand human diseases. His lab pioneered the fast-growing field of bacterial epigenomics (Fang et al. Nature Biotechnology, 2012; Beaulaurier et al. Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018; Oliveira et al. Nature Microbiology, 2019), and the use of DNA methylation as natural epigenetic barcodes for high resolution microbiome analysis (Beaulaurier et al. Nature Biotechnology, 2018; Tourancheau et al. Nature Methods, 2021; Cao et al. Nature Methods, 2024). In addition, his team also uses long read sequencing to understand human DNA methylation (Kong et al. Science, 2022; Kong et al. Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023) and alternative splicing (Nature Genetics, 2019) in brain disorders. Dr. Fang received his PhD degree in University of Minnesota, his MS degree in University at Buffalo, and his BS degree in Fudan University, China. Dr. Fang received multiple awards including: Mount Sinai Research Excellence Award (2023), NIH/NIGMS Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award (2021), Irma T. Hirschl / Monique Weill-Caulier Trust Research Award (2018), Nash Family Research Scholar, Friedman Brain Institute (2016), Best Dissertation Award at University of Minnesota (2013), Walter Barnes Lang Fellowship (2011), Sage Bionetworks Young Investigator Award (2010).