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Director of Graduate Studies, Associate Professor
University of Tennessee
Dr. Guoxun Chen is a tenured associate professor in the Department of Nutrition at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He obtained his BS and MS degrees of Virology and Molecular Biology from Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. He completed his Ph.D degree of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and his postdoctoral training in the lab of Drs. Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. In 2006, Dr. Chen became a faculty member at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. Dr. Chen has been conducting research projects related to obesity and diabetes since 1995. Since 2006, Dr. Chen has focused on the roles of vitamin A in the development of metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, and the regulation of glucose and lipid homeostasis. Currently, Dr. Chen serves as the Chair of the Nutritional Science and Metabolism Interest Group at the American Diabetes Association.