Yu Chen

Yu Chen is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dr. Hailiang Huang’s lab at ATGU and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT. Prior to joining the ATGU, Yu earned her Ph.D. in Genetics from Central South University, where her work focused on studying and comparing the genetic regulation of brain gene expression across different populations. Yu is widely interested in studying the genetic basis and underlying mechanism of neuropsychiatric disorders and is currently working on identifying and comparing structure variants signals contributing to psychiatric disorders in Asian and EUR populations.