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Zhijian Chen

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Chinese American biochemist

United StatesBorn 1966 · age 60
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Zhijian "James" Chen is a Chinese-American biochemist and professor in the department of molecular biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.

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Awards 8

2025Foreign Member of the Royal Society
2024Lasker Award
2023Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize
2020William B. Coley Award
2019Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences
2018Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences
2012NAS Award in Molecular Biology
2012Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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Hugh HuxleyAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz PrizeBruce AlbertsAlso won NAS Award in Molecular BiologyAviv RegevAlso won Lurie Prize in Biomedical SciencesHans CleversAlso won Breakthrough Prize in Life SciencesTak Wah MakAlso won William B. Coley AwardLucy ShapiroAlso won Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize

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Zhijian "James" Chen is a Chinese-American biochemist and professor in the department of molecular biology at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center. He is best known for his discovery of mechanisms by which nucleic acids trigger innate and autoimmune responses from the interior of a cell, work for which he received the 2019 Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences.

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Born 1966 · age 60
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