Portrait of Bryant Duong
Bryant Duong
bryanttduong at gmail dot com

I am a Genomics & Computational Biology PhD student at Penn advised by Professors Li Shen and Noam Auslander.

I was previously a Master’s research assistant in the Auslander Lab in 2024/2025 and a software engineer for 6.5 years at Optum working on production CI/CD pipelines and EHR/insurance claims databases. In summer 2023, I interned at the National Institutes of Health, conducting bioinformatics research in Dr. Zhiyong Lu’s lab. Between 2015 and 2017, I was a Stokes Scholar at the National Security Agency.

I received a Master’s in Computer & Information Technology from Penn, an MBA from UC Davis, and a BA in Cognitive Science from Berkeley. Outside of work, I mentor junior engineers and college students looking to make a career transition into tech/academia, and I collect anime production cels.

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Publications

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Published

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melPDomiX: A Multi-Omics Melanoma PDX Resource Uncovers Gain- and Loss-of-Function Programs

Tsingas K*, Thomas M*, Reale M*, Xiao M*, Wickramasinghe J, Chen Y, Duong B, Lucas A, Thacker G, Li H, Mou H, Ramirez-Salazar E, Elbasir A, Villanueva J, Xu X, …, Auslander N#, Herlyn M#

Cell Reports, 2026;45(6)

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Mutant p53 binds and controls estrogen receptor activity to drive endocrine resistance in ovarian cancer

Shao C, Indeglia A, Leung J, Modarai SR, Leu IJ J, Duong B, Mes-Masson AM, Sims-Mourtada J, Auslander N, Drapkin R, Murphy ME

Genes & Development, April 2025

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AI Workflow, External Validation, and Development in Eye Disease Diagnosis

Chen Q, Keenan TD, Agron E, Allot A, Guan E, Duong B, Elsawy A, Hou B, Xue C, Bhandari S, …, Chew EY, Hribar MR, Chiang MF, Lu Z

JAMA Network Open, 2025;8(7):e2517204

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Preprints and papers in review

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Spatial Transcriptomics Recontextualizes the Cellular Environment of Conjunctival Melanoma

Maurer J*, Suzuki-Horiuchi Y*, Duong B, Ramirez MV, Chen A, Prouty SM, Milman T, Lee V, Cheng Y

Preprint, June 2026 — submitted to Ocular Oncology & Pathology

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Taxonomy-free fecal microbiome profiles predict immunotherapy response and toxicity in melanoma

Lucas A, Reale M, Wolf YI, Duong B, Zhang Y, Wickramasinghe J, Behlman L, Jones SM, Higgins S, Moustafa AM, Elbasir A, Amaravadi R, Mitchell T, Huang A, Auslander N

Preprint, May 2026 — in review at Genome Medicine

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ERVmancer: A phylogenetic approach to quantification of human endogenous retrovirus expression

Patterson A, Duong B, Yoon L, Foster M, MacMullen L, Wickramasinghe J, Lucas A, Srivastava A, Jacobson S, Murphy ME, Soldan S, Lieberman P, Auslander N

Preprint — in review at Genome Biology

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