Xiaoying Chen

Dr. Chen is faculty member at Washington University, School of Medicine. She completed her postdoc fellow training with Dr. Azad Bonni and Dr. David Holtzman. The goal of Dr. Chen’s research focuses on understanding the mechanism governing immune response in healthy and diseased brain; how brain and immune systems communicate in learning, aging and neurodegenerative disease at cellular and system level; and how different cellular mechanisms can be targeted to prevent neurodegeneration. Dr. Chen has received a number of honors and awards, including the O’Leary Prize for Best Neuroscience Research, the Poletsky Award for Alzheimer’s Disease Research from Washington University, the Tau Consortium Fellowship from Rainwater Charitable Foundation, the Career Development Award from Society for Neuroscience, and the 2023 Early Career Achievement Award from Alzheimer’s Association. She is a member of Society for Neuroscience, Alzheimer’s Association, American Society for Neurochemistry, and American Neurological Association.