Biography:

Dr. Jun Wan received PhD degree in physics at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario Canada, followed by a postdoctoral training in bioinformatics at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. In 2016, Dr. Wan moved to Indiana University School of Medicine as a tenure-track Assistant Professor, then was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in 2022. He has broad research interests in bioinformatics and computational systems biology, especially with core motivation of understanding functional alterations of gene regulatory network from the perspectives of epigenetics, transcription, and translation. Jun has published over 130 peer-reviewed papers. He was awarded as Showalter Faculty Scholar in 2023.