Translational Informatics

Dr. Bairong Shen is professor and executive director general of the Institutes for Systems Genetics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. He received his PhD in chemistry from Fudan University in 1997. Dr. Shen was appointed Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry at Fudan University in 1999 for his accomplishments in theoretical and computational surface chemistry. In the early 2000s, Dr. Shen started his new exploration into biomedical informatics and related computational biology in his postdoctoral research at the University of Tampere, Finland. His success in the new paradigm of biological research won him a competitive faculty position in the European university as an Assistant/Associate Professor of Bioinformatics since 2004. He joined the Soochow University by founding the University's Center for Systems Biology in 2008. In Finland and China, Dr. Shen has taught more than 10 different courses in biomedical informatics and systems biology and published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in competitive journals which covered the medical genetic areas including cancer biomarker discovery, biomedical informatics and the basic exploration in physics, chemistry, biology, and computational science. His recent researches focus on biomedical informatics and systems biology of complex diseases and healthcare.