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PublicationAugust 2026

Metastrand — antisense transcription in the gut microbiome

"Antisense transcription reveals disease-associated adaptations in the human gut microbiome" is published in Nature Microbiology. Metastrand quantifies microbial mRNA and antisense RNA at gene-level resolution, and reveals antisense programmes that converge across patients during active inflammatory bowel disease.

GrantJune 2026

CISID New Investigator Award to decode sepsis heterogeneity

Chenhao received a New Investigator Award from the Broad Institute's Center for Integrated Solutions for Infectious Diseases to map uncharacterized metabolites and metabolic pathways in sepsis and predict patient outcomes from multi-omics data.

AnnouncementMarch 2026

Appointed Associated Investigator at CISID, Broad Institute

Chenhao joined the Center for Integrated Solutions for Infectious Diseases at the Broad Institute as an Associated Investigator.

Publication2026

Protein language models identify microbial protease allergens

Our collaboration with the Bacallado group on protein language model-guided homology search for microbial protease allergens is out in Cell Systems.