
Yvonne Chen
PROFESSOR
CHEMICAL AND BIOMOLECULAR ENGINEERING
1602 Mol Sci Bldg
Email: yvchen@ucla.eduPhone: (310) 825-2816
Websites
RESEARCH AND INTERESTS
- Synthetic biology
- Cell-based immunotherapy
NOTABLE PUBLICATIONS
IN THE NEWS
EDUCATION
- B.S. Stanford University, 2004
- Ph.D. California Institute of Technology, 2011
- Postdoc, Harvard Medical School, 2013
AWARDS AND RECOGNITION
- Mark Foundation Emerging Leader Award, October 2018
- Rose Hills Foundation Innovation Award, July 2018
- Northrop Grumman Excellence in Teaching Award, October 2017
- Member Researcher, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. November 2016
- National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2016
- Young Investigator Award in Cell and Gene Therapy for Cancer, Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, 2016
- Hellman Fellowship, 2015
- NIH Director’s Early Independence Award, 2012
- Harvard University William F. Milton Fund, 2012
- Junior Fellowship, Harvard Society of Fellows, 2011-2014