Biography

Dr. Kevin Chen obtained his medical degree from Sichuan Medical College of Sichuan University and finished his residence in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Xian Jiao-Tong University (both in China). He completed his Oral and Head-Neck Surgery training in the Faculty of Stomatology, Xian Jiao-Tong University in 1988. From 1992 to 1993, he was a clinical fellow in the Division of Otolaryngology and Head Neck Surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine. He began his research on cancer genetics and drug resistance at Stanford in 1993 and received his Ph.D degree in the Program of Cancer Biology at Stanford in 2002. He continued on studying drug resistance mechanisms in human cancer as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Laboratory of Cell Biology of the National Cancer Institute. In 2005, he joined the NIH Stem Cell Unit. Dr. Chen was appointed as Adjunct Associate Professor of Georgetown University Medical Center in 2010. He has authored or co-authored 1 patent and 45 papers in peer-reviewed journals and received several awards from cancer and stem cell research.