Dr. Xianjun Dong is a principle investigator at the Adams Center for Parkinson’s Disease Research and an associate professor of neurology at Yale School of Medicine. Before that, he was the founding director of the Genomics and Bioinformatics Hub at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard. He specializes in developing computational methods to understand the widespread regulation of genes across the human genome by integrating experimental and clinical data from both healthy individuals and people with neurological diseases. Dr. Dong received his PhD in bioinformatics from the University of Bergen and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in bioinformatics and integrative biology at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He was an active member of the ENCODE consortium and he has 40+ publications with 14,000+ citations. He co-led the BRAINcode project with Dr. Clemens Scherzer and received awards from the American Parkinson Disease Association.