Chunying Chen () is a Chinese chemist who is a professor at the

National Center for Nanoscience and Technology The National Center for Nanoscience and Technology (NCNST; ) of China is a government initiated research institute with an emphasis on nanoscience and nanotechnology. History The NCNST was initiated by the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) a ...

. Her research considers nanoscale biological interactions. She was awarded the 2021

Royal Society of Chemistry The Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) is a learned society (professional association) in the United Kingdom with the goal of "advancing the chemistry, chemical sciences". It was formed in 1980 from the amalgamation of the Chemical Society, the Ro ...

Environment, Sustainability and Energy Award. She is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering and the

Early life and education

Chen was born in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. Her parents were both chemists, and she spent part of her childhood in a science laboratory. She was an undergraduate student at the

Huazhong University of Science and Technology The Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST; ) is a public research university located in Guanshan Subdistrict, Hongshan District, Wuhan, Hubei province, China. As a national key university directly affiliated to the Ministry of E ...

. She remained at Huazhong for her doctoral research. After graduating she moved to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, where she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher. In 2001 she was appointed to the

Karolinska Institute The Karolinska Institute (KI; sv, Karolinska Institutet; sometimes known as the (Royal) Caroline Institute in English) is a research-led medical university in Solna within the Stockholm urban area of Sweden. The Karolinska Institute is consist ...

Research and career

In 2002, Chen returned to China, first as a group leader then as a professor at the

. In 2011, she discovered that carbon nanotubes can absorb proteins in the blood, which was the first indication that it is possible to reduce the toxicity of carbon nanotubes. She studied the interface between proteins and nanomaterials and developed sensitive characterisation techniques to study their chemical transformation.

Awards and honours

* 2014 Chinese Young Female Scientists Award * 2016 Elected Fellow of the

* 2018 Elected General Secretary of the Asian Society of Toxicology * 2021

Environment, Sustainability and Energy Award * 2021 Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering * 2021

The World Academy of Sciences The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) is a merit-based science academy established for developing countries, uniting 1,000 scientists in some 70 countries. Its principal aim is to promote scientific capacity and excellence for sustainable devel ...

Chemistry Award * 2021

American Chemical Society The American Chemical Society (ACS) is a scientific society based in the United States that supports scientific inquiry in the field of chemistry. Founded in 1876 at New York University, the ACS currently has more than 155,000 members at all d ...

Bioconjugate Chemistry Lectureship Award

Selected publications

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Books

References

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