Prof. Shuquan (Steven) Shen - Principal Investigator

Professor, Institute for Health Informatics (IHI)

Director, Translational Genomics and Bioinformatics Services, Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI)

MD, Nantong University Medical College, Nantong, China

Postdoctoral Training, Molecular Immunology, Cornell University

PhD, Neuro-Oncology & Molecular Immunology, Suzhou University Medical College, Suzhou, China

Professional Training Program, Computation and Informatics, Xincon Technology School

After postdoctoral training in molecular immunology from Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Dr. Shen spent seven years at MIT Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology as a research scientist for high throughput technology and computational method development. Prior to joining IHI at UMN, Dr. Shen worked at Boston University Medical School as an assistant professor for two years and NYU Langone Medical Center as an associate professor for six years for teaching and research at the area of genomics and bioinformatics. From 2007 to 2008, Dr. Shen also spent two years at Helicos Bioscience for the next generation sequencing technology development. Dr. Shen completed undergraduate and graduate education from Nantong Medical College and Suzhou Medical College, respectively in China.

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