Cell scientist to watch – Fei Xavier Chen

ABSTRACT Fei Xavier Chen received his Bachelor's degree from Shandong University, China, and Master's Fudan where he worked on the structure function of histone demethylase LSD2. He then moved to USA join Ali Shilatifard's group for PhD, first at Stowers Institute Medical Research, Kansas City, Northwestern Chicago. During this time identified transcription regulator PAF1 as a crucial player in pausing-elongation step its role enhancer activation. did short postdoc with Joan Massague Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, study transcriptional epigenetic dysregulation cancer progression. In 2019, established independent research University Shanghai; lab uses wide range approaches mechanisms regulation health disease, special focus cancer.