Kong Chen PhD, MSCI

Kong Chen is trained in mechanical engineering (BS), biomedical engineering (PhD), and is a clinical investigator (MSCI). He was a faculty member of the School of Medicine and the School of Engineering at Vanderbilt. He is currently a tenured senior clinical investigator and chief of the Energy Metabolism Section in the Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Obesity Branch at the NIDDK/NIH, and co-director of the Metabolic Clinical Research Unit at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. His research focuses on customizing sensor technologies and analytical methods to study human metabolic regulation and body weight control in health and disease.