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Allen Chen

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Allen Chen

Postdoctoral Fellow
Email: Yuyin.Chen@nyulangone.org

Allen is a post-doctoral fellow in the laboratory and an attending rheumatologist in the NYU Division of Rheumatology. His work revolves around characterizing the systemic immune response in Sjogren’s Disease using single cell profiling methods. He received his A.B. in Chemistry and Physics from Harvard University. He earned his M.D./Ph.D. from Harvard University during which time he trained in synthetic biology in the laboratory of Dr. Timothy Lu and in human genetics in the laboratory of Dr. Christopher Walsh. He continued clinical training in the Medical Research Track at Weill Cornell / Hospital for Special Surgery, completing residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Rheumatology. During fellowship he trained in immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Alexander Rudensky.