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Huanhuan Joyce Chen is an Assistant Professor at the Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering at the University of Chicago. With a Pharm.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from Zhejiang University and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering from Cornell University, she has worked extensively in the field of molecular and cellular engineering. Chen completed her postdoctoral fellowship under Harold Varmus at Weill Cornell Medicine. Her research focuses on tissue engineering, stem cell biology, and cancer biology, employing innovative techniques such as human pluripotent stem cell-based modeling and organotypic tissue engineering. Her lab seeks to understand the mechanisms behind cancer initiation and progression, leveraging strategies that enable the effective diagnosis and treatment of diseases. The Joyce Chen Lab integrates stem cell-based disease modeling with regenerative technologies and single-cell analysis to study organ damage repair and the implications for regenerative medicine and genetic disorders. She has received several prestigious awards, including the National Institutes of Health Method to Extend Research Time (MERIT) Award and the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, emphasizing her contributions to the field.
Weill Cornell Medicine • New York, NY
Conducted research under the mentorship of Harold Varmus, focusing on cancer biology and regenerative medicine.
Department of Philosophy