CHEN Peng is currently professor and chair of the Department of Chemical Biology at Peking University. He obtained a BS degree in chemistry at Peking University in 2002 and a PhD in chemistry with Professor Chuan He at the University of Chicago in 2007. After postdoctoral training at the Scripps Research Institute with Professor Peter Schultz, he started his independent career at Peking University in 2009. Professor Chen is currently chair of the Chemical Biology Division of the Chinese Chemical Society and associate editor at ACS Chemical Biology.
His interests include bioorthogonal reactions and probes for studying protein functions and interactions in living systems. He developed chemical-enabled toolkits to uncover how the spatial-temporal organized human proteome is rewired during cancer and immune signaling, and his lab also exploited the therapeutic potential of these new reactions for protein-based immunotherapy. He is a leading expert in the development of bioorthogonal cleavage reactions for chemical controlled gain-of-function study of proteins within their native cellular context.