Jing Chen, PhD

As a renowned researcher in the area of cancer metabolism, Dr. Jing Chen is interested in elucidating the signaling basis underlying cancer metabolism and nutritional influences on cancer and response to cancer therapy for improved clinical outcomes. Dr. Chen has received numerous awards and his discoveries have been published in Nature, Nature Cell Biology, Cancer Cell, Molecular Cell, Cell Metabolism, and Cancer Discovery. 

Dr. Chen received a PhD in biochemistry from Emory University and completed postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Prior to joining UChicago, Dr. Chen was professor and the R. Randall Rollins Chair in Oncology at the Emory University School of Medicine and led the Cell and Molecular Biology Research Program at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University.