Di Chen
Di Chen
Chair Professor
MB, Ph.D
Email: di.chen@siat.ac.cn
Dr. Chen is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Pharmacology, Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology (SIAT), Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). He received his M.B. degree at Tianjin Medical University (1982) and his Ph.D. degree at University of Louisville, US (1992).
Before he joined SIAT, he worked at Rush University, Chicago during 2011-2019 as a tenured endowed professor (The John and Helen Watzek Professor of Biochemistry). He was a Chairman of the Department of Biochemistry (2011-2017) and a Section Director in the Section of Molecular Medicine in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery (2017-2019). He also served as a Co-Director in the Osteoarthritis Research Center at the Rush University. He is a member of American Society of Bone and Mineral Research (ASBMR), Orthopedic Research Society (ORS), American College of Rheumatology (ACR), Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) and International Chinese Musculoskeletal Research Society (ICMRS). He was a member of ASBMR education committee (2007-2010) and a topic chair of ORS (2007-2010). He also served as a President of ICMRS (2005-2007). He has published 247 SCI papers with cumulative impact factor 1468, citations: >22500, and H-index: 74 (Google scholar citations; March, 2021). Some of his studies were published in high impact journals, including Science, Science Translational Medicine, Nature Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, Nature Communications and Arthritis & Rheumatology.
As a principal investigator, he received over $12 million funding support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), US, including 6 R01 awards. He served as a panel member of NIH study sections more than 30 times in the past 15 years and served as a regular member of NIH SBSR study section (2009-2013). He also served as a panel member of NSFC study sections in China (2010, 2011, 2018, 2020). He received numerous awards, including NIH Independent Scientist Award (2006) and National Science and Technology Advancement Award, China (2015). Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows in his lab received 48 Young Investigator awards or Travel awards while working in his lab. He has served as an editorial board member for 12 bone and joint related scientific journals, including A&R, JBMR, JBC, AR&T OAC, and J Cell Biochem. He is currently serving as an associate editor of the Journal of Orthopedic Translation.
Research areas
Understanding the pathological mechanisms of and developing drugs for bone and joint diseases, such as osteoarthritis, ankylosing spondylitis and genetic bone diseases.
Xiaoli Li
xiaoli.li@siat.ac.cn
Tel: +86-755-86569441
