Senior Scientist
Foundation Medicine, Inc
Yanmei Huang is a Senior Scientist in Computational Biology at Foundation Medicine, Inc., Cambridge, MA, where she leads computational biology efforts for liquid biopsy products. She has developed proprietary algorithms for cancer genomics applications, resulting in multiple patent applications. Previously, she was a Senior Bioinformatics Scientist and Assistant Investigator at The Forsyth Institute and Harvard School of Dental Medicine, pioneering computational methods for microbiome analysis and teaching bioinformatics. Earlier, she served as a Bioinformatics Scientist at Whitehead Institute, Assistant Professor of research at Tufts University, scientific curator at FlyBase, and postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Yanmei holds a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Genetics from Rice University and a B.S. in Biochemistry from Xiamen University. Her work spans cancer genomics, microbiome research, neuroscience, molecular biology and genetics, with numerous publications reflecting her contributions to both basic and translational research in biology and biotechnology.