Prof Xing Chen

Professor Dr Xing Chen is currently Vice President and Professor of Chemistry at Beijing Normal University. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Tsinghua University in 2002 and his PhD in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 2007. After completion of the postdoctoral research at Harvard Medical School, he started as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Peking University in 2010 and was promoted directly to Full Professor with tenure in 2016. From 2016 to 2024, Dr. Chen was Associate Dean and then Dean of College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering at Peking University. Some of his recent awards include Zhang Shuzheng Award for Outstanding Achievements in Glycoscience (2021), ACS Horace S. Isbell Award (2021), Xplore Prize (2010), and Tan Kah Kee Young Scientist Award (2020). His current research interest focuses on chemical glycobiology.