Fei Chen

Biography
Fei Chen is a core institute member at the Broad Institute and an associate professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University. Chen’s laboratory is building tools that bridge single-cell genomics with space and time, to enable discoveries of where cell types are localized within intact tissues, as well as when relevant transcriptional modules are active. To do this, the lab is developing novel experimental and computational technologies at the intersection of microscopy, genomics, and synthetic biology. His group is applying these tools to learn organizational principles governing tissue development and cellular mechanisms of disorganization during injury and disease. Chen obtained his Ph.D. in biological engineering from MIT, where he worked with Ed Boyden. His awards include the National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award, the Searle Scholars Award, the Burroughs Wellcome CASI Award, the Allen Distinguished Investigator Award, and a Merkin Institute Fellowship.