Lin Chen is a Research Associate Professor at the Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, Department of Periodontics, College of Dentistry, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA. He received his MD in Clinical Medicine and MS in Infectious Diseases from Chongqing Medical University, China and his PhD in Immunology from Yamagata University, Japan.

Innate immunity; inflammation; angiogenesis, extracellular matrix; scar, tight junctions, cutaneous and mucosal wound healing; tissue regeneration