Jong Cheol Jeong, PhD

Dr. Jong Cheol (JC) Jeong is an Assistant Professor at the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Biomedical Informatics, and a faculty member in the Markey Cancer Center (MCC) Cancer Research Informatics (CRI) Shared Resource Facility where he serves as Manager of the Cancer Research Data Commons (CRDC). His primary research interest is in the development and application of methods in translational biomedical informatics to better understand disease pathogenesis leading to the development of precision medicine and improved diagnostics and therapeutics for cancer patients. Dr. Jeong's research is focused on developing biomedical methods to identify new biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis, and prediction of response to therapy in cancer using Big Data and Machine Learning approaches.