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Recent news and career updates from Joshua Chiou.

Oct 01, 2026 Gave an oral presentation at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes annual meeting (EASD 2026) in Milan on differential proteomic responses to tirzepatide versus semaglutide in the SURMOUNT-5 trial.
Sep 28, 2026 Promoted to Director, Genomics at Lilly.
Mar 26, 2026 Fixed a memory leak in the ha-esunpower Home Assistant integration that crashed when the PVS gateway’s serial number was an IP address.
Feb 12, 2026 Packaged r-mmrm for conda-forge, so the mixed models for repeated measures (MMRM) R package can be installed as a conda dependency in clinical trial pipelines.
Oct 20, 2025 Joined Lilly as Senior Advisor, Genomics, working on translational proteomics for obesity clinical trials.
Oct 02, 2023 Promoted to Senior Principal Computational Geneticist in the Internal Medicine Research Unit at Pfizer.
Sep 18, 2023 Co-authored the UK Biobank Pharma Proteomics Project paper on plasma proteomic associations with genetics and health, published in Nature.
May 19, 2021 Published a paper in Nature showing that the exocrine pancreas plays a role in type 1 diabetes.
Apr 19, 2021 Joined Pfizer as a Senior Computational Geneticist in the Internal Medicine Research Unit, working on statistical genetics for cardiometabolic diseases.
Mar 15, 2021 Defended my PhD in Biomedical Sciences at UC San Diego. Dissertation: Understanding pancreatic mechanisms of diabetes risk with genetic association and single cell epigenome data.