Yiming Zhong, PhD, FACMG

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Laboratory director, Division of Genomic Diagnostics, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Contact information
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
3615 Civic Center Blvd
716H Abramson Pediatric Research Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104
3615 Civic Center Blvd
716H Abramson Pediatric Research Center
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-590-0488
Fax: 215-590-2156
Fax: 215-590-2156
Education:
B.S. (Biology)
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 1999.
M.S. (Genetics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2004.
Ph.D. (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology)
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2010.
Permanent linkB.S. (Biology)
Wuhan University, Wuhan, China, 1999.
M.S. (Genetics, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology)
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, 2004.
Ph.D. (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology)
The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 2010.
Selected Publications
Jason Saliba, Shivani Golem, Morteza Seifi, Laveniya Satgunaseelan, Laura B. Corson, Heather E. Williams, Malachi Griffith, Obi L. Griffith, Minjie Luo, Madina Sukhanova, Mariam T. Mathew, Alex H. Wagner, Arpad Danos, Kilannin Krysiak, Gordana Raca, Angshumoy Roy, Lynn Schriml, Jake Lever, Jianling Ji, D. Williams Parsons, Cameron J. Grisdale, : ClinGen Pediatric Cancer Taskforce initiatives to advance pediatric clinical interpretations through expert curation. The Cancer Genomics Consortium 2023.Feng Xu, Jinhua Wu, Jeffery Schubert, Kajia Cao, Zhiqian Fan, Minjie Luo, Yiming Zhong, Lea F. Surrey, Kristin Zelley, Sarah E Baldino, Mary E. Clark, Garrett M. Brodeur, Suzanne P. MacFarland, Marilyn M. Li: DICER1 Alterations Identified in a Cohort of 2,236 Solid Tumors of Children and Young Adults. Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP) Annual Meeting 2023.
Haley Newman*; Mary Egan Clark*; Suzanne P. MacFarland; Garrett M. Brodeur MD; Stephen P. Hunger, MD; Timothy Olson MD; Jinhua Wu; Jeffrey Schubert; Netta Golenberg; Maha Patel; Elizabeth H. Denenberg; Elizabeth A. Fanning; Jiani Chen; Tammy Luke; Daniel Gallo; Kajia Cao; Weixuan Fu; Zhiqian Fan; Minjie Luo; Lea F. Surrey; Gerald Wertheim; Marilyn M. Li; Yiming Zhong: Cancer Predisposition Genetic Testing Among Children with Hematologic Malignancies. Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) 2023.
Chen, Jiani; Wu, Jinhua; Schubert, Jeffrey; Lin, Fumin; Denenberg, Elizabeth H; Muir, Alison; Romasko, Edward J; Fanning, Elizabeth A; Bhatti, Tricia R; Cole Kristina A; Kreiger, Portia A; Mattei, Peter; Luo, Minjie; Zhong, Yiming; Resnick, Adam C; Storm, Phillip B; Santi, Mariarita; Surrey, Lea F; Li, Marilyn: The spectrum of RAF1 fusion positive solid tumors in children and young adults. American Society of Clinical Oncology 2023.
Laveniya Satgunaseelan, Madina Sukhanova, Gokce Toruner Arpad Danos, Lauren Akesson, Destiney Allen, Laura B. Corson, Haleh Farzhanmehr, Ariana Gonzalez, Cameron J Grisdale, Haluk Kavus, Yuwen Li, Tracy Lively, Marilena Melas, Jason Merker, Mamta Rao, Shamini Selvarajah, Zonggao Shi, Dmitriy Sonkin, Elizabeth Spiteri, Heather Williams, Xiaonan Zhao, Yiming Zhong, Jason Saliba, Obi L Griffith, Malachi Griffith, and Ian King: Initial efforts of the ClinGen Solid Tumor Taskforce in promoting variant curation in solid tumors into CIViC. The Cancer Genomics Consortium 2023.
Feng Xu, Angela N. Viaene, Jenny Ruiz, Jeffrey Schubert, Jinhua Wu, Jiani Chen, Kajia Cao, Weixuan Fu, Rochelle Bagatell, Zhiqian Fan, Ariel Long, Luca Pagliaroli, Yiming Zhong, Minjie Luo, Portia A. Kreiger, Lea F. Surrey, Gerald B. Wertheim, Kristina A. Cole, Marilyn M. Li, Mariarita Santi & Phillip B. Storm : Novel ATXN1/ATXN1L::NUTM2A fusions identified in aggressive infant sarcomas with gene expression and methylation patterns similar to CIC-rearranged sarcoma. Acta Neuropathologica Communications July 2022.
Chelsea Kotch, Michael Fisher, Yiming Zhong, Dan Gallo, Emily Fan, Fumin Lin, Jiani Chen, Mariarita Santi, and Marilyn Li: Atypical teratoid rhabdoid tumor in a child with neurofibromatosis type 2: A novel dual diagnosis. Cancer Genetics 262–263, April 2022.
Feng Xu, Erfan Aref-Eshghi, Jinhua Wu, Jeffrey Schubert, Gerald Wertheim, Tricia Bhatti, Jennifer Pogoriler, Maha Patel, Kajia Cao, Ariel Long, Zhiqian Fan, Elizabeth H Denenberg, Elizabeth A Fanning, Donna M Wilmoth, Minjie Luo, Laura K Conlin, Aleksandra S Dain, Kristin Zelley, Sarah Baldino, Naomi Balamuth, Suzanne MacFarland, Marilyn M. Li, Yiming Zhong*: A Novel TP53 Tandem Duplication in a Child with Li-Fraumeni Syndrome. Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Case Studies March 2022.
Yuwen Li, Jason Saliba, Nathan Kopp, Coumarane Mani, Heather E Williams, Wenying Zhang, Jianhua Zhao, Kilannin Krysiak, Arpad Danos, Xiangqiang Shao, Rong He, Panieh Terraf, Nikita N Mehta, Shivani Golem, Jie Liu, Destiney Allen, Chimene Kesserwan, Hagop Kantarjian, Torsten Haferlach, Piers Blombery, Madhu M. Ouseph, Ella Thompson, Yiming Zhong, Xiaonan Zhao, Yasmina Jaufeerally Fakim, Sheeja T. Pullarkat, Obi L Griffith, Malachi Griffith, Rashmi Kanagal-Shamana, Xinjie Xu on behalf of the ClinGen FLT3 Somatic Cancer Variant Curation Expert Panel: Dissecting The Knowns for The Unknowns: Refining the Classification of Genomic Variations in Hematological Diseases by the ClinGen Hematological Cancer Taskforce (HCT). American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting 2022.
Jeffrey Schubert, Jinhua Wu, Feng Xu, Maha Patel, Netta Golenberg, Jiani Chen, Elizabeth Denenberg, Elizabeth Fanning, Weixuan Fu, Kajia Cao, Rochelle Bagatell, Theodore W. Laetsch, Adam Resnick, Mariarita Santi, Phillip Storm, Minjie Luo, Gerald Wertheim, Lea F. Surrey, Yiming Zhong, Marilyn M. Li: The landscape of BRAF alteration in pediatric and young adult solid tumors. Association for Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting 2022.