Bin Chen
Associate Professor (with Tenure)
Grand Rapids Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBin Chen is a tenured associate professor, entrepreneur, and co-founder who translates large-scale AI and multi-omic data into therapeutic discovery, currently leading the Center for AI-Enabled Drug Discovery at Michigan State and a transcriptomics-driven startup, Bronto Therapeutics. With a PhD in Informatics and a decade of cross-sector experience spanning Stanford, UCSF, big pharma and startups, he builds machine-learning methods for integrative bioinformatics, EHR mining, and drug repurposing. His lab’s work has been published in Cell and Nature-family journals and supported by over $7M in NIH, industry, and foundation funding, reflecting both methodological rigor and translational impact. A standing member of the NIH BDMA study section, he also mentors the next generation of PIs and runs a global data-science nonprofit serving 6,000 members, underscoring his commitment to community building beyond academia. An often-overlooked thread in his career is deep cheminformatics and semantic-web work from early industry collaborations, which continues to inform his integrative, network-based approach to drug discovery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ignite; The Startup Garage, Ignite; The Startup Garage at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics (Track: Cheminformatics Minor: Bioinformatics), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Informatics (Track: Cheminformatics Minor: Bioinformatics) at Indiana University BloomingtonB.S chemical engineering, B.S chemical engineering at Chongqing University
Github Skills (1)
biomedical5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Bin-Chen-Lab/Awesome_BigData_AI_DrugDiscovery
Mar 2018 - Aug 2021
A collection of resources useful for leveraging big data and AI for drug discovery. It mainly serves as an orientation for new lab folks. It may be biased towards my lab interest.
Contributions:35 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 5 months
Bin-Chen-Lab/bin-chen-lab.github.io
Aug 2016 - Feb 2025
Contributions:642 pushes, 7 branches in 8 years 7 months
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