Charleston Chiang

@CharlestonCWKC

Associate Professor @usc_cge @uscpphs @qcb_usc. Genetic epidemiology & population genetics. A city, mountain, candy, dance & drosophila gene.

UCLA-Harvard HMS-UCLA-USC chianglab.usc.edu Joined July 2014

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Charleston Chiang @CharlestonCWKC Dec 1, 2023

My lab (chianglab.usc.edu) is 6 years old today! It's a surreal feeling. As I age, time seems to be moving faster. So while it doesn't feel that way, all of a sudden this lab is now the one lab that I have spent the most of my life in.

A quick video of its evolution:

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Charleston Chiang @CharlestonCWKC Jul 22

I prefer permanent ST (earlier sunrise and sunset), but businesses prefer DST. How about just make the Monday after time switch a mandated holiday so kids get one more day to adjust?

The dark side of making daylight saving time permanent in California: latimes.com/california/sto…

www.latimes.com The dark side of making daylight saving time permanent in California: How late would our sunrises... If Congress adopts permanent daylight saving time year-round, Los Angeles would see its latest sunrise of the year at 8 a.m.

Charleston Chiang @CharlestonCWKC May 8

OK, I've finally got to track the time for writing s grant from scratch. From first ink on page to complete first draft was... 19.5 hrs. (Not accounting time to brainstorm and outline)

The bad news... I'm 3.5 pages over the limit and has 9 figures I want to include...

Charleston Chiang @CharlestonCWKC Feb 26

I've pulled my part to help vault @uscpphs, thanks in no small part to the amazing and dedicated team of grant administration team and HR team that we have had in the past.

Keck School of Medicine of USC @KECKSchool_USC Feb 26

We're #1 🥇

The FY'25 Blue Ridge rankings are out and we are #1 in @NIH funding per investigator!

Top-10 departments for NIH funding in their fields:

# 1 Population and Public Health Sciences
# 5 Neurology
#5 Ophthalmology
#5 Physiology and Neuroscience
#7 Orthopaedics

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Charleston Chiang @CharlestonCWKC Dec 8, 2025

I've been tracking my working hours since mid-2021. But by then I had already written / submitted all of my major grants, which have been funding my lab since. Therefore I couldn't get a good sense of how much I actually spend on writing a "new" #NIHgrant.