Success Stories: Research Assistant in the Field of Bioinformatics in Missouri Receives EB-2 NIW Approval

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On January 21, 2014 A Research Assistant in the Field of Bioinformatics Received EB-2 NIW (National Interest Waiver) Approval 3 Months After His Case Was Filed (Approval Notice)


General Field: Bioinformatics

Position at the Time of Case Filing: Research Assistant

Country of Origin: Taiwan

Service Center: Nebraska Service Center (NSC)

State of Residence at the Time of Filing:  Missouri

Approval Notice Date: January 21, 2014

Processing Time:  3 Months


Case Summary:

North America Immigration Law Group – WeGreened.com represented a research assistant in the field of Bioinformatics. This client’s work focused on the response of drugs used to identify the copy number alteration in DNA involved with the hindering of ineffectual drugs, as well as the evaluation of chemotherapy. The client contributed towards the development of an extreme-value-based Circular Binary Segmentation model, which provides accurate and robust results and proposed a procedure for the removal of Cancer Genome Atlas’ ovarian cancer dataset effects. His research resulted in 2 co-authored and 5 first-authored peer-reviewed journal articles, which had been cited 32 times when his case was filed. One recommender stated: “[Client] will lead the way in instituting a better understanding of cancer, as well as how and which drugs are most effective.  This will also be carried out by personalizing treatments based on a patient’s DNA copy number profile, which as of now are incredibly expensive to gather.  [Client’s] work will help raise the effectiveness and lower the cost of these treatments.  The United States will greatly benefit from future research from [Client] in achieving this end.” This EB-2 NIW petition was approved 3 months after the case was filed.