Tie-Gen Chen, Ph.D., Principal investigator of Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Zhongshan Institute for Drug Discovery, the Institutes of Drug Discovery and Development, CAS. Dr. Chen received his BSc in chemistry from Sichuan University in 2009. He obtained his PhD at Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC) under the supervision of Prof. Li-Xin Dai and Prof. Xue-Long Hou in 2014. In 2016, he joined the laboratory of Prof. Phil S. Baran as a postdoctoral fellow at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI). Since September 2020, Dr. Chen has worked at Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences. His current research interests are mainly focused on the innovative radical chemistry and medicinal chemistry. 

2016.02 - 2020.01  Postdoctoral Research Fellow, The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)，USA

2009.09 - 2014.12  Ph.D., Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry (SIOC), Chinese Academy of Sciences 

2005.09 - 2009.07  B.S., Department of Chemistry, Sichuan University 

2020.09 - Present  Professor, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, CAS and Zhongshan Institute for Drug Discovery, the Institutes of Drug Discovery and Development, CAS.

2015.06 - 2016.01  Senior Scientist I, WuXi AppTec Co. LTD. Shanghai, China

1.Novel synthetic methodologies (radical chemistry);

2.Total synthesis and structural modification of natural products;

3.Discovery of lead compounds and candidate compounds;

4.Bioactive small molecules library.