Dr Ling-Ling Chen

Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, China

Ling-Ling Chen carried out doctoral and post-doctoral work at the UConn Health, USA from 2004 to 2010. She also completed an MBA degree at the UConn Business School in 2009 and was promoted to Assistant Professor in Residence at UConn in 2010. Chen moved to Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) as an independent PI in 2011. She was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) International Research Scholar in 2017, and as a New Cornerstone Investigator in 2023. She has been appointed as the Associate Director, State Key Laboratory of Molecular Biology since 2017, and as the Director of the Key Laboratory of RNA Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences since 2022. Her research has made important contributions to our understanding of the diversity, biogenesis and function of long coding RNAs (lncRNAs), in particular, the biogenesis of circular RNAs and their impact on innate immunity, and the snoRNA-related lncRNAs in the assembly and function of nuclear bodies.