Dr. Chen joined the University of Kentucky Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center and Department of Neuroscience in early 2020. She came from the Department of Neurology and Neurotherapeutics, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
She is an early stage investigator dedicated to advancing knowledge of the biology and treatment of central
nervous system damage, including spinal cord injury (SCI) and ischemic stroke. Initially trained as a molecular
biologist, she studied cellular stress response to proteo-toxicity with my doctoral mentor Dr. Ze’ev Ronai. Seeking
to apply my knowledge in cellular stress signaling to the field of neural repair, she performed postdoctoral training
with Dr. Binhai Zheng, whose lab studies axon regeneration following spinal cord injury. While identifying neuronintrinsic
regulators of CNS axon