Shuquan (Steven) Shen, MD, PhD

Research
Genomics/Bioinformatics
Translational Bioinformatics
Shuquan (Steven) Shen

8-118 Phillips-Wangensteen Building
516 Delaware St. SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
United States

After postdoctoral training in molecular immunology from Weill Medical College of Cornell
University, Dr. Shen spent seven years at MIT Center for Cancer Research and Department of
Biology as a research scientist for high throughput technology and computational method
development. Prior to joining IHI at UMN, Dr. Shen worked at Boston University Medical School
as an assistant professor for two years and NYU Langone Medical Center as an associate
professor for six years for teaching and research at the area of genomics and bioinformatics.
From 2007 to 2008, Dr. Shen also spent two years at Helicos Bioscience for the next generation
sequencing technology development. Dr. Shen completed undergraduate and graduate
education from Nantong Medical College and Suzhou Medical College, respectively in China.
His research interest and course information can be found from his lab website: shen.umn.edu.

Education

Professor, Institute for Health Informatics (IHI)

Director, translational genomics and bioinformatics

MD, Nantong University Medical College, Nantong, China

Postdocoral Training, Molecular Immunology, Cornell University

PhD, Neuro-Oncology & Molecular Immunology, Suzhou University Medical College, Suzhou, China

Professional Training Program, Computation and Informatics, Xincon Technology School