Biography

Dr Chen is Associate Professor and Head of Graduate Division of the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; and Honorary Associate Consultant of the New Territory East Cluster (Prince of Wales Hospital and Alice Ho Nethersole Hospital). Dr Chen is Specialist in Ophthalmology.

Dr Chen is actively working on ophthalmic researches. His major research interest is molecular and clinical genetics of major eye diseases, including macular and retinal diseases (e.g., age-related macular degeneration and polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy, diabetic retinopathy, retinitis pigmentosa, etc.), glaucoma, myopia, and corneal dystrophy, etc. He is also working on the genetic profiling of myopia progression in children. Dr Chen and co-workers have identified a large number of new disease genes/loci, new mutations, new association profiles, and biomarkers for major eye diseases.

Dr Chen has published over 131 papers in SCI international indexed peer-reviewed journals, with an H-index of 32 (Jan 2021). He is the first or corresponding author of 50 publications. He has co-authored 1 paper in Lancet Oncology (impact factor [IF] 33.75), 7 papers in Nature Genetics (IF 27.60), 3 in Nature Communication (IF 12.12), 1 in Ocular Surface (IF 12.336), 2 in American Journal of Human Genetics (IF 10.50), 1 in PNAS (IF 9.41), 1 in Genetic Medicine (IF 8.90), 11 in Ophthalmology (IF 8.47), 3 in JAMA Ophthalmology (IF 6.19), 13 in Brit J Ophthalmol (IF 3.61), and 17 in IOVS (IF 3. 47).

Dr Chen is active in research grant application. He is the principal investigators of 7 major local (Hong Kong), National (China), and International competitive research grants, with a total amount of more than HK$6.3 million.

Dr Chen is also active in international service. He has delivered more than 30 lectures as invited speaker and chaired more than 10 sections in international conferences, mainly including the World Ophthalmology Congress, Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO) Congress, and International Symposium of Ophthalmology.