Areas of Specialty:

• Stem cells

• metabolism

• mitochondrial function

Danica Chen, PhD

Danica Chen is a Professor of Metabolic Biology, Nutritional Sciences & Toxicology at University of California at Berkeley and a member of Berkeley Stem Cell Center. She was a Searle Scholar, an Ellison Scholar, a Kavli Fellow, and a Hellman Fellow. Dr. Chen received Ph.D. in molecular and cell biology from University of California at Berkeley and obtained postdoctoral training in biology at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research aims to understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying aging-associated conditions and diseases and elucidate which aspects of aging-associated conditions are reversible.