Jin Jen MD, PhD

Dr. Jen is the co-Director of the Genome Analysis Core of the Medical Genome Facility at Mayo Clinic where she is also a consultant and associate professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology. Dr. Jen is an expert in genetic analyses of solid tumors and in gene expression profiling in a variety of biospecimens.

She has been responsible for the development and implementation of whole transcriptome based technologies at the Mayo Clinic. Her research focuses on using the next generation sequencing and single cell based analysis to understand cancer initiation and progression and to help develop molecular markers for cancer diagnosis and treatment stratification. Dr. Jen has authored more than 120 peer reviewed publications and is an inventor to five patents. She is an Associate Editor for Clinical Cancer Research and has served on study sessions for NIH and the American Cancer Society. Dr. Jen is a recipient of grants from the National Cancer Institute, National Foundation for Cancer Research, and the Mayo Clinic – University of Minnesota