Bin Chen, PhD
Principal Investigator, Associate Professor (CV)
Dept. of Pediatrics and Human Development
Dept. of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering (adjunct)
Bin was recruited to MSU through the Global Impact Initiative. Prior to this position, Bin was a faculty member (instructor, assistant professor) at UCSF for three years. Bin trained as a chemist in college, worked as a software engineer before graduate school, trained as a chem/bioinformatician in graduate school, worked as a computational scientist at Novartis, Pfizer and Merck. He received his PhD in informatics at Indiana University, Bloomington and pursued his postdoctoral training in Dr. Atul Butte's lab at Stanford University. Bin co-founded DahShu, a non-profit organization to promote research and education in data sciences. As a PI, he has received >$4.5 million research funding. He has also contributed to a number of big grants (e.g., P01 and U24) as a co-investigator. During weekends, Bin plays soccer or coaches kids to play soccer.
Email Google Scholar LinkedIn GitHub TwitterRama Shankar, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar (2018-)
Rama completed the M.Sc. Biotechnology from the University of Hyderabad, India in 2010 and the PhD in computational biology from Jawaharlal Nehru University, India in 2018. He joined Dr. Bin Chen group in 2018. He is interested to apply single cell transcriptomic data into therapeutic discovery and integrate omics data to identify novel biomarkers.
Email Google ScholarShreya Paithankar, MS
Technical Assistant (2018-)
Shreya received the MS in health informatics from GVSU. She provides bioinformatics support to lab researchers and collaborators. Her main tasks include developing and maintaining our RNA-Seq processing pipeline, expanding the OCTAD RNA-Seq database, and developing web portals.
EmailDimitri Joseph
DO/PhD student (2020-)
Dimitri is a DO/PhD candidate pursuing a graduate degree in Pharmacology and Toxicology. He received his MSc in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from Stony Brook University. He is interested in connecting bioinformatics & Drug Discovery to identify novel mechanisms and validation in clinical models. His favorite organ/system is the brain and central nervous system.
EmailRuoqiao Chen
BMS PhD student (2021-)
Ruoqiao received the BS in medical science from Huazhong University of Science & Technology in China. Her current research focuses on surface protein expression prediction using transfer learning and deep learning.
EmailHan Meng
Research Assistant (2021), CS graduate student(2022-)
Han received the MS in material science from MSU. She is a master student at CSE supervised by Dr. Chen and Dr. Zhou. Her current focus is on the improvement of the AI-based drug screening platform.
EmailDmitry Leshchiner, MD
Postdoctoral scholar(2022-)
Dmitry Leshchiner received the MD from I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and then spent a couple of years at Harvard Medical School as a research associate before pursuing the postdoc training at Boston College in 2020. In 2022, he joined the Chen lab and Horibata lab.
EmailXiaodan Zhang, MS
Data Science Specialist(2022-)
Xiaodan received the MS in statistics from the University of South Florida, and had over 10 years of teaching experience before joining the Chenlab to lead the EMR projects.
EmailYajing Ji, DO/PHD
Resident at Spectrum Health (2022-)
Yajing received the DO/PhD from MSU and started the residency at Spectrum Health in 2022. In Chen lab, she is interested in using machine learning to study cardiovascular diseases.
EmailNabasmita Talukdar, MS
PhD student in Biostats (2022-)
Nabas received the MS in statistics from Delhi University in India. She is interested in using real-world data to discover better therapeutics.
EmailWe always welcome highly motivated trainees to join the lab. For postdoc candidates, please send your CV and research interests to Dr. Chen. For graduate students, depending on your interests and backgrounds, please apply through the BioMolecular Science program, the Genetics and Genome Sciences Program, the Biostatistics program, or the Computer Science Program. Feel free to approach Dr. Chen if you plan to apply. Chen lab has the tradition to host high-school summer interns every year. Please contact Dr. Chen before April if you are interested. We occasionally recruit undergraduate and medical students. For all the trainees, before the application, please ensure you have some experience with programming (R and Python are preferred) and statistics. The Resource page will direct you to some great sources to learn programming and statistics.
Alumni
Jing Xing | postdoc 2018-2022 | Young PI at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
Jeremy Haskins | part-time technician 2020-2022 | Senior Scientist at Altay Therapeutics |
Mengying Sun | CSE PhD student, 2019-2022, co-advised with Prof. Jiayu Zhou | Data Scientist, Facebook(Meta) |
Ke Liu | Postdoc 2017-2021, Research Assistant Professor 2021-2022 | Assistant Professor, Qilu Scholar, Shandong University |
Eugene Chekalin | Postdoc 2019-2021 | senior computational biologist at Illumina |
Austin VanVelsen | 2020-2021 Medical student | Medical student at CHM, MSU |
Tyler VanVelsen | 2020-2021 Medical student | Medical student at CHM, MSU |
Jeanne Yang | 2021 Summer intern | Undergraduate at UM |
Shan-Ju Yeh | 2019-2020 Visiting Scholar | PhD student and then professor at Taiwan National Tsinghua University |
Christopher Chang | 2019-2020 capstone | Medical student at COM |
Krista Young | 2019-2020 capstone | Medical student at COM |
Xiangyu Chen | 2020 Summer Intern | East Grand Rapids High School, admitted to UPenn |
Yingying Wu | 2019 Postdoc | postdoc at Harvard, then AP at University of Houston |
Rae Felismino | 2019 capstone | Medical student at COM |
Cathy Lee | 2019 capstone | Medical student at COM |
Suchir Gupta | 2019 summer intern | Grand Rapids Central High School, admitted to UM |
Billy Zeng | UCSF medical student 2017-2019 | UCSF medical student |
Albert Jiao | Medical student 2018 | matched Radiology at Harvard |
Kasim Fassia | Medical student 2018 | Medical student at MSU |
Patrick Newbury, MD | Postdoc from 2018-2019 | Radiation oncology resident at University of Oklahoma |
Anthony Sciarini | Intern from GVSU in 2018 summer and fall | GVSU undergraduate |
Keith Schmitt | Intern from GVSU in 2018 summer and fall | GVSU undergraduate |
Anita Wen | Summer intern from UC Davis in 2018 | UC Davis |
Before we moved to MSU in 2018 | ||
Jordan Spatz | Medical student | UCSF |
Michael F. Sharpnack | Medical student, volunteer | Ohio State University |
Reuben Sarwal | Summary Intern | Undergraduate, UC Berkeley |
Tanisha Joshi | Summary Intern | High school |
Jane Wei | Summary Intern | Undergraduate, Cornell University |
Rachel (Menghua) Wu | Summary Intern | High school, accepted into MIT |
Charles Pei | Summary Intern | High school, accepted into Harvard, co-mentored by Marina Sirota |
Collaborators