Rong Chen

Rong Chen is the Director of Clinical Genome Informatics and Assistant Professor at the department of Genetic and Genomics Sciences in Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Chen has developed many databases, software, and patents to drive precision medicine and clinical diagnosis using next generation sequencing and integrative genomics at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Personalis, Stanford University, and Quest Diagnostics. He built a startup company called Personalis to interpret personal genome and exome sequences for clinical diagnosis, and sit in the advisor board for several genome informatics companies, including LifeMap Solutions, Bina Technologies, and Tute Genomics. Dr. Chen received his B.S. in Chemical Physics from University of Science and Technology in China, his M.S. in Structure Biology from Chinese Academy of Sciences, and his Ph.D. in Bioinformatics from Boston University. More in his linkedin, GoogleScholar, and NIH Biosketch