Dr. Jingchun Chen is an assistant professor at Nevada Institute of Personalized Medicine (NIPM), working on the genetics of Alzheimer’s. Particularly, she focuses on the relationship between genetics immune system, microglia on the human brain, pursuing to identify reliable biomarkers for diagnosis and personalized treatment of Alzheimer’s. Dr. Chen’s research will provide better understanding on the onset of neurological conditions especially Alzheimer’s

Dr. Chen obtained her M.D. and Ph.D. from Tongji Medical University, one of the best medical schools in China. She was a physician in Pediatrics in China before she moved to the United States in 2000. In the earlier years of her career, she devoted herself on the genetic study of fragile X syndrome and became one of the researchers who first applied PCR to the clinical screening and diagnosis of genetic disorders in China.