Principal Investigator

Chen Liao, Ph.D.

Incoming Assistant Professor
Department of Microbiology and Immunology
Dartmouth College
Email: liaoc@mskcc.org
my CV

Short Bio

Chen studies physics at the University of Science and Technology of China and received his B.A. in 2010. He developed an interest in synthetic biology and completed his Ph.D. in Bioengineering in the lab of Dr. Ting Lu at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2018, Chen joined the lab of Dr. Joao Xavier at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center as a postdoc, where he was co-mentored by Dr. Tobias Hohl. Outside of science, Chen loves sports (basketball, soccer, etc.), playing with kids, road trip, hiking, and fishing.