Will Chen

Will Chen is a leader and innovator in target validation using combined computational and experimental approaches. He was a junior faculty member at Harvard Medical School heading an effort in systems pharmacology before moving to industry to work on neurology and immunology drug discovery. Currently he is a Senior Director at Biogen in the Translational Biology group. His work relates to the systematic integration of human genetics and genomics, molecular and clinical data through advanced analytics and disease pathways to generate novel understanding of disease biology and patient outcomes. Will has also been part of the multi-partner private-public consortium Open Targets that counts a number of biotech and pharmaceutical companies as members including Biogen, GSK, Takeda, Sanofi and Celgene. Will completed his bachelors in physics at UC Berkeley and his PhD at Harvard University in biophysics working on protein folding and soft matter systems.