About

Yu-Wei Chen is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UC San Diego Health, specializing in genitourinary (GU) medical oncology. He focuses on the treatment of prostate, kidney, and bladder cancers, with research emphasizing clinical trials and translational studies in prostate and kidney cancer. His educational background includes an MD from National Cheng Kung University College of Medicine in Taiwan, an MS in Public Health from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and specialized training in internal medicine, medical oncology, and genitourinary oncology at Cleveland Clinic Foundation and Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Chen has received numerous awards and honors for his research, including the Kidney Cancer Research Summit Clinical Science Abstract Merit Award and the ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award. His work involves characterizing molecular changes in cancer, developing innovative treatment strategies, and improving clinical outcomes for patients with renal and prostate cancers.

Research topics

• Materials science
• Nanotechnology
• Chemistry
• Chemical engineering
• Metallurgy
• Engineering
• Composite material
• Medicine
• Inorganic chemistry
• Crystallography

Selected publications

• Stable perovskite solar cells with 25.17% efficiency enabled by improving crystallization and passivating defects synergistically

  Energy & Environmental Science · 2022 · 194 citations

  • Materials science
  • Chemical engineering
  • Nanotechnology

  Both improving crystallization and passivating the defects of a perovskite film have been realized by introducing 2-amidinopyrimidine hydrochloride, which resulted in an efficiency of 25.17% along with long-term operational stability.

  DOI

• Carbon-free high-loading silicon anodes enabled by sulfide solid electrolytes

  Science · 2021 · 897 citations

  • Materials science
  • Chemical engineering
  • Nanotechnology

  The development of silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries has been largely impeded by poor interfacial stability against liquid electrolytes. Here, we enabled the stable operation of a 99.9 weight % microsilicon anode by using the interface passivating properties of sulfide solid electrolytes. Bulk and surface characterization, and quantification of interfacial components, showed that such an approach eliminates continuous interfacial growth and irreversible lithium losses. Microsilicon full cells were assembled and found to achieve high areal current density, wide operating temperature range, and high areal loadings for the different cells. The promising performance can be attributed to both the desirable interfacial property between microsilicon and sulfide electrolytes and the distinctive chemomechanical behavior of the lithium-silicon alloy.

  DOI

• Strain-activated light-induced halide segregation in mixed-halide perovskite solids

  Nature Communications · 2020 · 160 citations

  • Materials science
  • Chemistry
  • Crystallography

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Frequent coauthors

• Xiurong Yang

  Guangxi University

  71 shared

• Meng Tian

  59 shared

• Dewen Wang

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  48 shared

• Zhicai Xing

  Chinese Academy of Sciences

  47 shared

• Ying Shirley Meng

  47 shared

• Yueying Yan

  Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry

  31 shared

• Grayson Deysher

  University of California, San Diego

  24 shared

• Jihyun Jang

  University of California, San Diego

  24 shared

Labs

• UCSD Moores Cancer CenterPI

Education

• Ph.D., Molecular and Computational Biology

  University of California, San Diego

  2008

• M.S., Molecular and Computational Biology

  University of California, San Diego

  2004

• B.S., Molecular and Computational Biology

  University of California, San Diego

  2002

Awards & honors

• Kidney Cancer Research Summit 2025 Clinical Science Abstract…
• The Robert A. Winn Diversity in Clinical Trials Award Progra…
• ASCO Conquer Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award (202…
• Vanderbilt University Medical Center Carol O’Hare Endowed Ge…
• Annual Meeting Abstract Merit Award ASCO/AACR (2021)

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