Dr Gangqing Hu received his PhD in molecular biology, bioinformatics and genomics from Peking University China. After graduation in 2009, he joined Dr. Keji Zhao's lab as a Post-Doc Fellow at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), NIH USA and developed expertise in chromatin biology. In 2013, Dr Hu received a promotion to staff scientist at NHLBI. In the summer of 2019, Dr Hu joined the Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology, West Virginia University as a tenure track assistant professor and director of the WVU bioinformatics core.