About

Dr. Jing Chen is the Janet Davison Rowley Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago, where she joined in August 2020. She serves as the Director of Basic and Translational Science in the Section of Hematology/Oncology, Associate Vice Chair for Translational Science in the Department of Medicine, and the inaugural director of the Cancer Metabolomics Research Center. Additionally, she is the Associate Director for Translational Sciences for the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center. Dr. Chen is a renowned researcher in the area of cancer metabolism, with a focus on elucidating the signaling basis underlying cancer metabolism and the influence of diet and nutrition on cancer and response to therapy, aiming to improve clinical outcomes. Her research interests include cancer metabolism, diet and nutrition, drug discovery and development, leukemia, and metabolites as signaling molecules. Prior to her current role, she was a professor and the R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology at Emory University School of Medicine, leading the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at the Winship Cancer Institute. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship in Cancer Biology at HHMI & Harvard Medical School, earned her PhD in Biochemistry & Cell Biology from Emory University, and her BS in Molecular Biology from the University of Science and Technology of China.

Research topics

• Biology
• Cancer research
• Medicine
• Cell biology
• Genetics

Frequent coauthors

• Rui Su

  273 shared

• Hengyou Weng

  Guangzhou Medical University

  222 shared

• Xiaolan Deng

  City of Hope

  185 shared

• Huilin Huang

  Southern Medical University

  150 shared

• Yungui Wang

  Zhejiang University

  139 shared

• Xi Jiang

  128 shared

• Lei Dong

  121 shared

• Zejuan Li

  Houston Methodist

  120 shared

Education

• B.S., Molecular Biology

  University of Science and Technology of China

  1994

• Ph.D., Biochemistry & Cell Biology

  Emory University

  2001

• Other, Cancer Biology

  HHMI & Harvard Medical School

  2004

Awards & honors

• HHMI & Harvard Medical School Postdoc Fellow - Cancer Biolog…
• R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology, Emory University (2018…
• Winship Cancer Institute Research Mentorship Award, Winship…
• Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Graduate Division of Bi…
• Winship 5K Scholar Award, Winship Cancer Institute, Emory Un…

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