Yingxue Ren

Dr. Ren is an Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences at Mayo Clinic. Her research focuses on developing and applying novel bioinformatics approaches to translational science to help identify novel disease risk factors and therapeutic targets, specifically for neurodegenerative diseases. Her expertise is omics analysis of disease models, including whole exome and genome sequencing, bulk and single cell transcriptomics, cell type deconvolution, proteomics, lipidomics, metabolomics, epigenomics, as well as multiomics integration. She is currently co-PI or co-I on 9 NIH or foundation grants, and has authored 48 publications.