Dr. Keyue Shen

Biography

Dr. Keyue Shen received a Bachelor of Engineering (summa cum laude) in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Science in Biophysics from Tsinghua University of China. He earned his Ph.D. degree (with Distinction) in Biomedical Engineering from the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Columbia University in 2010. Following his doctoral studies, he pursued postdoctoral training at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, where he received the MGH Fund Medical Discovery Award. In January 2015, Keyue joined the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California. He has been recognized with the Marni Levine Memorial Research Development Award from STOP CANCER and the Trailblazer Award from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institutes of Health (NIH), and has received the Rose Hills Research Fellowship at USC. His research interests lie in developing in vitro microengineered models of cell microenvironments related to the immune system, cancer, and stem cell niches, with applications in immune cancer therapeutics and cell/tissue regeneration. Dr. Shen's research aims to develop biologically inspired in vitro platforms to capture the scale of cell signaling and tissue microenvironments at subcellular and tissue levels, discovering novel therapeutics for human diseases, particularly through the maintenance and expansion of hematopoietic stem cells and the creation of microfabricated models of cancer microenvironments.

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