Jing Chen, Cancer Biology has been named the Janet Davison Rowley Professor in Cancer Research in the Department of Medicine. This new professorship honors Rowley, whose pioneering research on the links between genetics and cancer earned her the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Chen works to understand the signaling interplay between metabolic and cell signaling networks for a better understanding of cancer metabolism and improved clinical outcomes. In particular, his research seeks to determine metabolic and signaling functions of intracellular metabolites and circulating “blood chemicals,” which affect how tumors evolve, grow and respond to treatment; and to decipher the links between diet and particular cancer mutations.
He is director of the Cancer Metabolomics Research Center at UChicago Medicine.
His awards include the American Cancer Society Basic Research Scholar Award, the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Career Development Program Scholar Award, and the Georgia Cancer Coalition Distinguished Cancer Scholar Award.