Rong Chen

Who is Rong Chen?

Rong Chen, Ph.D. is a bioinformatics scientist in the Butte lab. Rong received his undergradute degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1994, his M.S. degree in Protein Crystallography and Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry of Chinese Academy of Science in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree in bioinformatics from Boston University in 2003. After graduation, he worked as a Scientist at Accelrys (on the Discovery Studio team), a senior computational Biologist at Amgen/Abgenix (on the Antibody Discovery team), and a principal software engineer at Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute (on the development of novel diagnostic assays).