Yihua Chen
Institute of Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Biography
Yihua Chen obtained a BSc. at Nanjing Agricultural University in 1998. He received his Ph.D. degree in biochemistry and molecular biology at the Institute of Microbiology, CAS with Prof. Dr. Keqian Yang in 2005. After five years postdoctoral research in University of Wisconsin-Madison with Prof. Dr. Ben Shen, he started his own research group in the Institute of Microbiology, CAS in 2011.
His research lies at the crossroads of bacterial genetics and natural product chemistry, with emphasis on biosynthetic mechanisms of microbial natural products and discovery of new small molecule drug leads through synthetic biology and genome mining.
RSC affiliations
Editorial board, Natural Product Reports (NPR)