UT Southwestern Medical Center/Children’s Medical Research Institute – Attending Physician and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Dr. Chen is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute. He is an Attending Physician in the Gill Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders at Children’s Medical Center in Dallas. As a physician-scientist, he divides his time between his research laboratory and Children’s Medical Center in Dallas, where he specializes in the care of children with cancer and blood disorders. His research interests in the laboratory focus on understanding the genetic drivers of childhood cancers, especially Wilms tumor, pleuropulmonary blastoma, and other cancers driven by mutations that impair microRNA processing.

Dr. Chen received his B.S.E. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and his MD from UT Southwestern. He then completed pediatric residency and pediatric hematology-oncology fellowship at UT Southwestern, where he joined the laboratory of James F. Amatruda.