Jan Heng, PhD

Current Title/Affiliation:

Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Staff Scientist II, BIDMC
Director, Detection Unit, Precision Medicine Core, Harvard Institute of RNA medicine (HiRM)/BIDMC
Member, Cancer Research Institute, BIDMC (Translational Therapeutics)
Member, Harvard Cancer Center (Breast Cancer and Cancer Epidemiology Program)
Affiliated Scientist, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT

Education:

Assoc Dip in Pianoforte Solo (Trinity College of London (Singapore))
B.Biomed Sc, Medical Laboratory Science (University of Tasmania, Australia)
B.Biomed Sc, First Class Honours, Neuropharmacology (University of Tasmania, Australia)
Ph.D, Clinical Proteomics in Pregnancy (Mercy Hospital for Women, University of Melbourne, Australia)
Grad Cert Res Commercialisation (Melbourne Business School, Australia)
Applied Biostatistics Certificate (Harvard Catalyst, Boston, MA)

Training:

Post Doctoral Fellow (Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada)
Research Fellow (Harvard Medical School, BIDMC, Boston, MA)

Notable Awards:

Dean's List (2002, 2003), University of Tasmania
Dean's Citation (2006), University of Tasmania
University Medal (2006), University of Tasmania
National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NHMRC) Dora Lush Biomedical Postgraduate Training Scholarship
Melbourne Research Scholarship, University of Melbourne (gratefully declined)
Canada Institutes of Health Research Fellowship (CIHR)
Best Clinical Science Paper (2021, 2023), BIDMC Cancer Research Institute