HONORS:
Scholarship for Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, 1979
Fogarty International Research Fellowship, US National Institute of Health, 1989
Outstanding Teaching Award, Ministry of Education, ROC, 1992
Outstanding Scholar, Foundation for Outstanding Scholarship, 1995-1999
Academic Award, Ministry of Education, ROC, 1997
Academician, Academia Sinica, 1998
National Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, ROC, 1997-2002
ISI Citation Classic Award, ISI Thomas Scientific, 2001
Outstanding Research Fellow Award, National Science Council, ROC, 2003
Health Medal (First Rank), Department of Health, ROC, 2005
Achievement Medal (First Rank), Executive Yuan, ROC, 2005
Presidential Science Prize, ROC, 2005
Member, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2005
Honorary Member, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2007
Cutter Lecturer on Preventive Medicine, Harvard University, 2008
Dr. DV Datta Memorial Oration, Indian National Association for Study of the Liver, 2008
Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, Ministry of Education, France, 2009
Science and Engineering Achievement Award, Taiwanese-American Foundation, USA, 2009
Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
Outstanding Merit Award, Wang Ming-Ning Memorial Foundation, Taiwan, 2010
Excellence in Cancer Prevention Award, Taiwan Joint Cancer Conference, Taiwan, 2011
14th Prof. Vikit Viranuvatti Lecturer, Gastroenterological Association of Thailand, 2011
Science Profession Medal (First Prize), National Science Council, ROC, 2012
Knowledge for the World Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2012

RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Molecular and genomic epidemiology
Researches in the Chen lab encompass a broad spectrum of molecular and genomic epidemiology. They include:
Long-term follow-up study on the predictability of risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, cervical carcinoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma for various biomarkers of chronic infection of hepatitis B and C virus, human papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr virus, respectively;
Molecular biomarkers of chronic arsenic poisoning: gene-environment interaction;
Multiplex family study and association study on susceptibility genes of cancers of hepatocellular carcinoma, cervical carcinoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma;
Genomic epidemiological study on susceptibility genes of female lung adenocarcinoma.