Dr. Xin Chen

Biography

Dr. Xin Chen is an Associate Professor in the department of Pharmaceutical & Clinical Sciences, College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences at Campbell University in Buies Creek North Carolina. She obtained her Ph. D degree in Organic Chemistry from Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences before she came to further her research in antiviral and anticancer drug discovery at University of Georgia College of Pharmacy and Purdue University College of Pharmacy. After that she moved to the University of North Carolina working on multiple drug discovery projects and obtained training in cancer pharmacology and proteomics in the department of Pharmacology. Prior to joining Campbell University, Dr. Chen was a faculty member at the Presbyterian College School of Pharmacy.

Dr. Chen has been working in drug discovery for about 20 years. She has successfully developed multiple drug candidates/chemical probes in the areas of anti-cancer, epigenetics, antiviral and neurosciences. She is very familiar with the drug discovery and development process and is an expert in synthetic methodologies, retro-synthetic analyses, purification and verification of chemical structures, as well as all the medicinal chemistry strategies in SAR studies and lead optimizations. Her current research interests include anticancer drug discovery and exploring novel strategies for pain management.

Dr. Chen’s lab currently focuses on 1) discovery of novel compounds with dual activities in activating Nrf2 signaling pathway and inhibiting glutaminase for the management of cancer induced pain; 2) discovery of chemical affinity probes for the quantitative profiling of kinases and epigenetic modulators in cancer cells to help developing precision medicine.