Dr. Chen’s laboratory offers an integrated translational pipeline in the clinical environment. He leads an interdisciplinary team that carried out translation and validation of several research assays in the areas of iron metabolism (hepcidin-25), endocrinology (plasma renin activity, serum/plasma steroid profile and salivary progesterone), toxicology (urine drug profile), lipidomics (plasma ceramides profile, and bile acid profile) and microbiology (direct-from-specimen analysis).
Dr. Chen established the Vancouver Island Biofluid Resource Centre (BRC) that allows for patient recruitment, sample (and clinical data) collection, processing, and storage. He is the director of Vancouver Island COVID-19 Biobank, and the co-chair of the BC COVID-19 Biobank Network (BCCBN), a core working group supported by UBC COVID-19 Clinical Research Coordination Initiative (CRCI).