Ping Helen Chen

Dr. Chen was a graduate from the University of Chicago, and awarded the best dissertation in biomedical research by the Pritzker School of Medicine and recognized for outstanding performance in the field of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology by the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. She was a tenured faculty member at Emory University School of Medicine. She is currently the managing lab director for clinical testing and test development with clinical lab director licenses from GA and NY. She has received grant awards from NIH, March of Dimes Foundation of Birth Defect Research, and Human Frontier Science Program, European Union. The studies led by her have been published in scientific journals including Nature Genetics, Nature Cell Biology, and PNAS. In addition to teaching and training graduate and medical students, and post-doctoral fellows, Dr. Chen has served as a reviewer for NIH for research grants and fellowship applications. She also participates frequently in international science program reviews including UK Wellcome Foundation.