Dr. Bin Tian received his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry from the Department of Biochemical Engineering at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, China. He then studied in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences at UMDNJ, Newark for his PhD under the guidance of Dr. Michael B. Mathews. After his graduation in 2000, he joined the Bioinformatics and Genomic Technology group in the R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, San Diego for postdoctoral training. In early 2003, he came to the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School to assume his current position as an Assistant Professor of Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology.  

Dr. Tian has been awarded numerous honors in his career including a silver medal in the 4th National Invention Exhibition of China, Predoctoral fellowship from the American Heart Association, and Stanley S. Bergen Jr., MD Medal of Excellence from UMDNJ.

Dr. Tian's lab is interested in studying post-transcriptional gene regulations using tools of genome informatics and high-throughput technologies. Their long-term goal is to systemically understand the post-transcriptional events in eukaryotic organisms.