The medical school will welcome Grace Chen, MD, PhD, in November as the latest speaker for Seminars in Investigative Medicine.
Dr. Chen will present “Host-Microbial Interactions in the Development of Inflammation and Tumors in the Colon” from noon to 1:00 p.m. on Wednesday, November 6, in TBL 2 at the W.E. Upjohn M.D. Campus in downtown Kalamazoo.
A free lunch will be available from 11:45 a.m. to noon and Dr. Chen’s presentation will begin promptly at noon. The event is free and open to the public and CE and MEDU credit is available.
If you’re interested in attending the event, please register at https://bit.ly/2pnASd3.
Dr. Chen is an associate professor of Internal Medicine in the Division of Hematology/Oncology at the University of Michigan Medical School. After graduating from Harvard University with a bachelor’s degree in Physics, she joined the Medical Scientist Training Program at Stony Brook University where she received a PhD in Genetics, and then transferred to the University of Michigan to complete her MD degree.
After medical school, Dr. Chen completed a combined Internal Medicine residency and Hematology/Oncology fellowship as part of the Physician-Scientist Training Program at the University of Michigan. Upon completion of her fellowship training, Dr. Chen joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 2009 and has specialized in the treatment of patients with gastrointestinal cancers.
Dr. Chen’s lab is interested in understanding how the host immune system and the gut microbiota modulate intestinal inflammation and carcinogenesis using mouse models. Specifically, her lab has focused on understanding the mechanism by which certain members of the Nod-like receptor (NLR) family that are largely involved in the sensing of bacteria protect against the development of inflammation-induced colon tumorigenesis. Her lab is also investigating how the gut microbiota regulates colon tumorigenesis using germfree and gnotobiotic mice as well as attempting to identify tumor-suppressive and tumor-promoting bacterial populations through bacterial sequencing and analysis of stool from wildtype and NLR-deficient mice during the development of chemically-induced inflammation and tumors
Dr. Chen is part of an impressive slate of speakers for Seminars in Investigative Medicine for the 2019-2020 academic year.
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