Meet the speaker #2 | Perturb 2027

Earning his PhD from the University of Washington, Dr. Junyue Cao went on to lead the Laboratory of Single-Cell Genomics and Population Dynamics at The Rockefeller University. Learn more about his career path.

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Junyue Cao

Junyue Cao, Ph.D., is the Fisher Center Foundation Associate Professor at The Rockefeller University, where he leads the Laboratory of Single-Cell Genomics and Population Dynamics. His research develops scalable single-cell, spatial, and functional genomic technologies to define how cell populations change during mammalian development, aging, and disease. He pioneered combinatorial-indexing methods including sci-RNA-seq, sci-CAR, sci-fate, and sci-RNA-seq3, enabling the profiling of millions of cells and multiple molecular features. His laboratory uses organism-wide mapping and large-scale genetic perturbation to uncover cellular and regulatory mechanisms of aging and age-related disease. His honors include the NIH Director’s New Innovator Award and the Grand Prize of the Science & SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists. Dr. Cao received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and his B.S. from Peking University

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