(US and Canada) CareDx, Inc., a precision medicine company focused on transplant patients and caregivers has announced the appointment of Jing Huang Ph.D., in the newly created role of Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Officer. Huang will lead key data science initiatives that are a part of the Company’s long-term strategic growth plan.

Most recently, Huang served as Senior Vice President of Bioinformatics and Data Science at Veracyte, Inc. He currently also serves as the President of the Bay Area Biotech-Pharma Statistical Workshop, is the Founding President of DahShu, and is the Chapter Representative for the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association.

A recognized leader in data science and machine learning, Huang brings to CareDx a proven track record in developing new products and solutions to advance patient care in the biopharma and diagnostics markets. As CDAIO, she will be responsible for advancing the organization’s efforts to integrate data science methods and AI into its customer-facing products to enhance patient care, and its internal business operations to achieve improved efficiency and scalability.

“CareDx is a leader in introducing AI-enabled rejection risk prediction models, such as AlloView that incorporates AlloSure, into the clinical management of kidney transplant patients,” says John W. Hanna, CareDx President and CEO. “Our portfolio of solutions for transplant center management and patient clinical diagnosis generates a tremendous amount of utilization and genomic data that can be leveraged to build care models that further improve patient outcomes.”

“CareDx has been at the center of many innovations that have revolutionized the field of transplantation, and today sits on one of the industry’s largest pre- and post-transplant genomics and patient outcomes databases. I’m excited to leverage this dataset along with the rich public data on transplant utilization and outcomes to drive the next wave of innovation in transplant precision medicine,” says Huang.

Huang completed her Doctorate in Statistics from Stanford University. In 2023, she was elected as a lifetime Fellow of the American Statistical Association to recognize her outstanding contributions to the medical research community in the field of statistics for numerous statistical innovations in genomic tests, and for exemplary leadership and community service to the profession.