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Ya-Wen Chen, PhD (she/her/hers)

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, United States

Ya-Wen is an Assistant Professor in the Departments of Otolaryngology and Cell, Developmental and Regenerative Biology and the co-director of the Center for Epithelial Biology and Regeneration at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She is also a member of the Black Family Stem Cell Institute and the Institute for Airway Science at Mount Sinai.

She pioneered the work in lung organoid development and directed differentiation from human pluripotent stem cells to respiratory epithelial cells.

After receiving her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland, Baltimore, she did her postdoctoral work at Columbia University. She was a Parker B. Francis Fellow, Baxter Faculty Fellow, Catalyst Awardee, and recently became the Isidore Friesner Scholar.

Ya-Wen is an active advocator for gender equality and LGBTQ rights!

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