Christina Chan

Biography

Christina Chan is the George Bissell Professor of Chemical Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), with joint appointments in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Computer Science and Engineering Departments. She is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Health Science and Engineering at MSU. Dr. Chan earned her B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. She worked for DuPont prior to returning to academia, and taking a post-doctoral position at the Center for Engineering in Medicine at the Harvard Medical School. Since joining the faculty of MSU in 2002, her laboratory is focused on integrating network and systems modeling, and metabolic flux analysis with experiments to improve the understanding of the disease mechanism. Dr. Chan is a fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She joined the BMC Systems Biology editorial board in 2007.

Research Interest

Biochemistry, Molecular Biology, Bioinformatics