Kun Yu, MD, PhD

Harvard Medical School

Academic Titles

Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School

Research Program Affiliation

Member, Cancer Imaging

Member, Cancer Data Sciences

Research Abstract

Kun-Hsing "Kun" Yu, M.D, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School. He developed the first fully automated algorithm to extract thousands of features from whole-slide histopathology images, discovered the molecular mechanisms underpinning the microscopic phenotypes of tumor cells, and successfully identified previously unknown cellular morphologies associated with patient prognosis. His lab integrates cancer patients' multi-omics (genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics) profiles with quantitative histopathology patterns to predict their clinical phenotypes. Dr. Yu's research interests include quantitative pathology, machine learning, and translational bioinformatics.