Zhenjun Chen
Microbiology and Immunology
Doherty Institute
Australia
Biography
Dr Zhenjun Chen got his Bachelor degree in Biology in 1986 from Hebei Normal University, Shijiazhuang, China. He completed his Masters in Medicine in 1989 at Tongji Medical University, Wuhan, China. He then worked as a Research Assistant, and a Lecturer in the Institute of Radiation Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences between 1989 and 1997. During this time, he was involved in tutoring four undergraduate students. He also held two grants and headed a lab for a year before moving to Australia, where he held a WHO Fellowship Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service in Adelaide in 1995 and 1996. Zhenjun completed his PhD with Professor James McCluskey in 2001 on a Melbourne Research Scholarship and Overseas Postgraduate Research Scholarship. During his PhD, he successfully generated transgenic mouse lines with the highly autoimmune disease-associating human MHC haplotype (DR3-DQ2; and DR4-DQ8) using yeast artificial chromosome technology.
Research Interest
Immunology
