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College on Problems of Drug Dependence: Early Career Investigators Awards, 2020
the DREAM challenge: Winner of single-cell transcriptome prediction, 2018
Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society: Phi Beta Kappa, 2018
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health: Lucy Shum Memorial Scholarship for excellence in public health research, 2016
Differential expression of NPAS4 in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex following opioid overdose Drug Alcohol Depend Rep. 2022 Jun; 3:100040. . View in PubMed
Integrating de novo and inherited variants in 42,607 autism cases identifies mutations in new moderate-risk genes Nat Genet. 2022 09; 54(9):1305-1319. . View in PubMed
Imputing cognitive impairment in SPARK, a large autism cohort Autism Res. 2022 01; 15(1):156-170. . View in PubMed
Epigenome-wide association analyses of active injection drug use Drug Alcohol Depend. 2022 06 01; 235:109431. . View in PubMed
Sex Difference and Interaction of SIRT1 and FOXO3 Candidate Longevity Genes on Life Expectancy: A 10-Year Prospective Longitudinal Cohort Study J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci. 2022 08 12; 77(8):1557-1563. . View in PubMed
Interaction of greenness and polygenic risk score of Alzheimer's disease on risk of cognitive impairment Sci Total Environ. 2021 Nov 20; 796:148767. . View in PubMed
DNA methylation biomarker selected by an ensemble machine learning approach predicts mortality risk in an HIV-positive veteran population Epigenetics. 2021 Jun-Jul; 16(7):741-753. . View in PubMed
Gene-Environment Interaction of FOXO and Residential Greenness on Mortality Among Older Adults Rejuvenation Res. 2021 Feb; 24(1):49-61. . View in PubMed
Epigenome-wide study of brain DNA methylation following acute opioid intoxication Drug Alcohol Depend. 2021 04 01; 221:108658. . View in PubMed
Epigenome-wide association scan identifies methylation sites associated with HIV infection Epigenomics. 2020 11; 12(21):1917-1927. . View in PubMed
Gene selection for optimal prediction of cell position in tissues from single-cell transcriptomics data Life Sci Alliance. 2020 11; 3(11). . View in PubMed
Single-cell Transcriptome Mapping Identifies Common and Cell-type Specific Genes Affected by Acute Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol in Humans Sci Rep. 2020 02 26; 10(1):3450. . View in PubMed
APOE e4 Modifies Effect of Residential Greenness on Cognitive Function among Older Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis in China Sci Rep. 2020 01 09; 10(1):82. . View in PubMed
DNA methylation mediates the effect of cocaine use on HIV severity Clin Epigenetics. 2020 09 14; 12(1):140. . View in PubMed
Comparison of methylation capture sequencing and Infinium MethylationEPIC array in peripheral blood mononuclear cells Epigenetics Chromatin. 2020 11 23; 13(1):51. . View in PubMed
National Institute on Drug Abuse genomics consortium white paper: Coordinating efforts between human and animal addiction studies Genes Brain Behav. 2019 07; 18(6):e12577. . View in PubMed
Presence of an epigenetic signature of prenatal cigarette smoke exposure in childhood Environ Res. 2016 Jan; 144(Pt A):139-148. . View in PubMed
Examining the association between substance use disorder treatment and smoking cessation Addiction. 2015 Jun; 110(6):1015-24. . View in PubMed
Trends in smoking among adults with mental illness and association between mental health treatment and smoking cessation JAMA. 2014 Jan 08; 311(2):172-82. . View in PubMed