Xiaoyuan Chen

Who is Xiaoyuan Chen?

Dr. Chen received his B.S. in 1993 and M.S. in 1996 from Nanjing University, China. He then moved to the states and obtained his Ph.D. in chemistry from the University of Idaho in 1999 under the supervision of Professor Chien M. Wai. After two quick postdoctoral programs at Syracuse University (under the mentorship of Dr. Jon Zubieta) and Washington University in St. Louis (supervised by Professor Michael J. Welch), Dr. Chen joined the University of Southern California as an Assistant Professor of Radiology. He then moved to Stanford University in 2004 to help build the Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS) under the directorship of Professor Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2008. In the summer of 2009, he joined the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB) as a tenured Senior Investigator. Dr. Chen also holds a joint appointment with the NIH Clinical Center.