Peng Zhang & Yuzong Chen

My research goals include developing tools and methods that integrates omics data (genetics, genomics, proteomics, therapeutics, interactome, and disasome) with computational approaches to advance the fields for disease-causing gene/mutation prioritization, deleterious variant prediction, and more. Chen Yu Zong is a Tenured Professor in the Department of Pharmacy, Faculty of Science at National University of Singapore and a member of NUS Graduate School for Integrative Sciences and Engineering (NGS). He is the pioneer of 'Inverse Docking' method for drug discovery, the developer of the popular database "Therapeutic Target Database (TTD)", a researcher among World's first in exploring machine learning methods for protein function prediction, ADME-Tox prediction, target discovery, and multi-target virtual screening, the recipient of the Outstanding Scientist Award 2007 (Science Faculty, NUS). His research has led to one US patent, 14 databases, 9 web-based software tools, 3 art and science web-servers, and >250 peer-reviewed publications. Chen Yu Zong received his Ph.D. in Physics from University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, U.K. in 1989. Before coming to NUS, he spent four years as Post-Doc fellow at Biophysics Group, Dept of Phys, Purdue University, Indiana, USA.