Dr. Hao Jiang is a Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Dr. Jiang studied regulation of immunity in our lymphocytes during his PhD studies at the Johns Hopkins University. He then did postdoctoral research with Robert Roeder at the Rockefeller University, studying how the chemical modifications of chromatin (the basic platform of our genetic information) control how much our cells turn on the expression of the genetic information. These studies set the stage for his independent research, starting in 2011, on how chromatin-regulatory proteins control normal and malignant blood cell formation. Dr. Jiang’s research aims to understand the mechanisms underlying the development of blood cancer at the molecular level, and how to develop new treatment strategies based on these mechanisms.