Xin CHEN, Ph.D.
Professor, Associate Director
Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology
Faculty of Medicine, Zhejiang University
866 Yuhangtang Road, Hangzhou, China
Tel/Fax: +86-571-88208595
Email: xinchen a.t. zju.edu.cn
xinchen.chen a.t. utoronto.ca
Biography
Xin Chen, Ph.D., is currently Professor and Associate Director of the Institute of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology at Zhejiang University and Professor (status-only) of the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto. He received two undergraduate degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one in biotechnology and one in computer science, and received his Ph.D. degree from the National University of Singapore, in computational sciences. After graduation, he worked as the director of the high-throughput biology department in Blueprint Initiative, Asia, an organization that curated the Biomolecular Interaction Network Database. In 2005, he joined Zhejiang University and once worked as associate professor, professor and associate chair of the bioinformatics program in the College of Life Sciences. He has published more than 40 research articles in peer-reviewed journals. He received the talented scientist award and the innovative research team award from the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China, and received the new century excellent talents in university award from the Chinese Ministry of Education.