Lieping Chen

Biography

 Dr. Lieping Chen is a Director of Cancer Immunology at the Yale Cancer Center, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.  From 1997 to 2010, he served as a Professor of Dermatology and Oncology and Director of Dermatology Research at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Previously, Dr. Chen worked for  Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. in Seattle as an research scientist, and as a Professor in the Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Chen's laboratory was the first to use costimulation to enhance tumor immunity in 1992 and has identified and characterized a series of molecules in the B7 and the TNF receptor/ligand superfamilies. Dr. Chen has published more than 200 scientific papers, review articles and book chapters, and edited two books. He has delivered more than 150 seminars, lecturer and speeches and served in many committees and advisory boards for US federal government and private organizations.

Research Interest

 Immunology, Cancer Biology, Dermatology, Molecular Biology