Invited Speaker

Jianjun Chen, PhD

Professor
City of Hope
Chair, Simms/Mann Family Foundation in Systems Biology
Chair, Department of Systems Biology 

Dr. Chen joined Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope as a professor and vice chair of the Department of Systems Biology in October 2017, and then became chair of the Department of Systems Biology in August 2020. He also is the deputy director of the Center for RNA Biology and Therapeutics. Before that, he had been serving as an associate professor of cancer biology at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine for a few years, after moving from University of Chicago where he was an assistant professor of medicine. Dr. Chen is a scholar of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (2017) and Researcher of the Year, The Pamela B. Katten Memorial Leukemia Research Foundation Award (2014). Dr. Chen is a permanent member of the National Institutes of Health Developmental Therapeutics (DT) study section and his research program is currently supported by multiple R01 grants from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

Selected Publications

Su R, et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2022 
Weng H, et al. Cancer Cell. 2022 
Qing Y, et al. Mol Cell. 2021 
Chen D, et al. Mol Cell. 2021 
Shen C, et al. Cell Stem Cell. 2020 
Su R, et al. Cancer Cell. 2020 
Huang H, et al. Annu Rev Cancer Biol. 2020 
Huang H, et al. Nature. 2019 
Huang H, et al. Nat Cell Biol. 2018 
Weng H, et al. Cell Stem Cell. 2018 
Su R, et al. Cell. 2018 
Li Z, et al. Cancer Cell. 2017