Affiliation: China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, National Resource Center for Chinese Materia Medica

Dr. Tong Chen obtained his bachelor’s degree in Life Sciences from Northeast Forestry University and his PhD in Bioinformatics from the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, focusing on next-generation sequencing data analysis. For the last five years, Dr. Chen has been working as an assistant professor in CACMS, focusing on bioinformatics analysis and method and data platform development.

At present, he has published papers in Cell Stem Cell, Nucleic Acids Research, etc. He was also invited to write reviews about microbiome analysis, which were published in Protein & Cell and the Chinese Medical Journal. He has established a new media platform (WeChat Offical Account) called "Bio-data" and served as its editor-in-chief. This new media platform has published over 700 original papers, analysis methods, and experiences of communications of bioinformatics. It has over 70,000 followers.