Dr. Mingyan Fang, PhD, Chief Scientist, BGI-Research Asia-Pacific. Her main interest lies in human disease research using multi-omics approach. She has strong expertise in applying multi-omics and bioinformatics technologies to disease studies. She uses machine learning and other data mining technologies to explore the synergistic effect between genes, and to identify new disease biomarkers. She is also committed to translating research findings into disease screening, diagnosis and therapeutics. She has published more than 50 papers in this field. She has applied for 4 software copyrights and is the inventor of 15 patents . She is the principal investigator of a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) funded project to explore oligogenic mechanism in Inborn Error of Immunity. She is also the principal investigator of a major project that investigates the genetic basis of systemic lupus erythematosus.