Dr. Keyue Shen

Biography

Keyue Shen received a Bachelor of Engineering (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Biophysics from Tsinghua University, China. He earned his Ph.D. (with Distinction) in Biomedical Engineering from Columbia University in 2010, and subsequently pursued postdoctoral training in the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. In January 2015, he joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Dr. Shen has received several awards, including the Marni Levine Memorial Research Development Award and the Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering. His research interests lie in developing in vitro microengineered models of cell microenvironments, focusing on the immune system, cancer, and stem cell niches, with applications in immune cancer therapeutics and cell/tissue regeneration. His research group works on biologically inspired platforms to capture cell signaling and tissue microenvironments at subcellular levels, seeking to identify new therapeutic targets to drive disease intervention and translate these discoveries into the development of cancer biomarkers and regenerative medicines.

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