Professor of virology / public health lab scientist at Alaska State Virology Laboratory

University affiliation

• College of Natural Science and Mathematics
• Institute of Arctic Biology
• Department of Biology and Wildlife
• University of Alaska Fairbanks (Fairbanks)

Contact information

• Email: j.chen@alaska.edu
• Phone: (907) 474-6966

Media contact

University Relations

• Email: uaf-news@alaska.edu

Areas of expertise

• Biomedicine and health

Research interests/biography

High-complexity clinical laboratory director in molecular diagnostics certified by American Board of Bioanalysis 

Molecular biologist certified by American Society for Clinical Pathology

Interests: Virology and viral infectious diseases, molecular diagnostics, clinical and molecular virology, cell and gene therapy, virus-host cell interaction, emerging viral pathogens, genomics and next-generation sequencing technology