1.Talk title:
Precision Cancer Models for Investigating Tumorigenesis, Progression, and Treatment
2.Speaker Name and Position and Institute:
Prof. Chong Chen
State Key Laboratory of Biotherapy, West China Hospital, Sichuan University
3. Speaker introduction or talk content
Dr. Chong Chen got his BS degree from Peking University in 1999 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in 2009. He had his postdoc training at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center before establishing his lab at Sichuan University in 2014. He received the National Natural Science Foundation of China Outstanding Youth Fund in 2015. The Chen laboratory’s researches focus on the molecular mechanisms of tumorigenesis with animal models. He identified new tumor suppressors such as KMT2C and PHF23. Recently, he studied metastasis and chemoresistance in lung cancer and bladder cancer. His group findings were published in the top journals, including Nature, Cancer Cell, Cancer Discovery, and Nature Cancer.
4.Date and Time: 11 April 2023
14:00-15:30 Academic Consultation
15:30-16:30 Seminar， A203-1 ZJE Building
Host: Dr. Jian Liu
