Biography
Edwin Chen, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine. He received his MD and PhD from Washington University in St. Louis, where he completed his PhD thesis in the laboratory of Niraj Tolia, characterizing inhibitory antibodies targeting P. falciparum and P. vivax erythrocyte invasion proteins. He then finished both an Internal Medicine residency and an Adult Infectious Diseases fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he was a T32 post-doctoral scholar in the laboratory of Matthew Culyba investigating the molecular mechanisms of persistent MRSA infections. His clinical and research interests include endocarditis, prosthetic device infections, and persistent S. aureus infections. He is particularly interested in leveraging next-generation sequencing technology to reveal mechanisms of bacterial persistence in difficult-to-treat patients.