Dr. Shaochen Chen is Zable Endowed Chair Professor in the Aiiso Yufeng Li Family Department of Chemical and Nano Engineeringat the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He is the founding director of the Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Center at UCSD. Before joining UCSD, Dr. Chen had been a Professor and a Henderson Centennial Endowed Faculty Fellow in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin from 2001 to 2010. Between 2008 and 2010, he served as the Program Director for Nanomanufacturing at NSF.
Dr. Chen’s primary research interests include: 3D printing and bioprinting, biomaterials and nanomaterials, stem cell and regenerative medicine, and tissue engineering. He has published over 190 papers in top journals.
Among his numerous awards, Dr. Chen received the NSF CAREER award, ONR Young Investigator award, and NIH Edward Nagy New Investigator Award. For his pioneering work in 3D printing and bioprinting, he received the Milton C. Shaw Manufacturing Research Medal from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) in 2017 and Frederick W. Taylor Research Medal from the Society of Manufacturing Engineers in 2023. Dr. Chen is an elected fellow of the US National Academy of Inventors and a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a Fellow of AAAS, AIMBE, ASME, & SPIE. In 2022, Dr. Chen was awarded as a BRITE Fellow of NSF to advance 3D biomanufacturing techniques. To commercialize his bioprinting technologies, Dr. Chen founded Allegro 3D, Inc. that was acquired by BICO (formally CELLINK), an industry leader for bioprinting.