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Jean Chen

Professor

Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biophysics

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  • Professor
    Temerty Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biophysics
  • (416) 785-2500
  • The Rotman Research Institute Baycrest, 3560 Bathurst Street, Toronto, ON, M6A 2E1

BIO

Dr. Chen received her MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary, and her PhD in Biomedical Engineering from McGill University. She completed her postdoctoral work on multimodal MRI of brain aging at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging, Harvard Medical School, and joined MBP as faculty in 2011. She is a Senior Scientist at the Rotman Research Institute and Tier II Canada Research Chair in Neuroimaging of Aging. She currents heads the Chen Lab (Research in Advanced Neuroimaging using MRI). Her research is funded by the CIHR, NSERC and the Heart and Stroke Foundation.

At a Glance:
- My research is driven by the need to better understand age-related neurological diseases, by using MRI to observe the living brain in healthy aging and disease.
- We use resting-state functional MRI (fMRI), arterial-spin labeling, cerebrovascular-reactivity mapping and simultaneous EEG-fMRI to understand the link between brain metabolism and vascular health.
- We develop new techniques for calibrated fMRI, diffusion MRI and resting-state fMRI, and integrate them to better understand neurovascular, metabolic and structural interactions.
- In the multidisciplinary environment at Baycrest, we translate our methods to the study of healthy aging and to patients with mild-cognitive impairment, late-life depression, hypertension, diabetes, and stroke.

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Biomedical Engineering, Canada2023 - present
  • Professor
    University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics, Canada2023 - present
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Biomedical Engienering, Canada2020 - 2023
  • Associate Professor
    University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics, Canada2018 - 2023
  • Assistant Professor
    University of Toronto, Medical Biophysics, Canada2011 - 2018

DEGREES

  • Fellowship
    Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, United States2009 - 2011
  • PhD
    McGill University, Montreal, Canada2005 - 2009
  • MSc
    University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada2002 - 2004
  • BSc
    University of Calgary, Canada1996 - 2001

AFFILIATED INSTITUTIONS

  • Baycrest