Dr. Bairong Shen, Professor & Executive Director General in Institutes for Systems Genetics, West China Hospital, Sichuan University. He received his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Fudan University in 1997. Dr. Shen was appointed as associate professor of Physical Chemistry at Fudan University in 1999, for his accomplishments in theoretical and computational surface chemistry. In the early 2000s, Dr. Shen started his new exploration into biomedical informatics and related computational biology in his postdoctoral research in the University of Tampere, Finland. His success in the new paradigm of biological research won him a competitive faculty position in the European university as an assistant/associate professor of Bioinformatics since 2004. He joined the Soochow University by founding the University’s Center for Systems Biology in 2008. In Finland and China, Dr. Shen has taught more than ten different courses in biomedical informatics and systems biology and published more than 100 peer-reviewed articles in competitive journals which covered the medical genetic areas including cancer biomarker discovery, biomedical informatics and the basic exploration in physics, chemistry, biology and computational science. His recent researches focus on Biomedical informatics and Systems Biology of complex diseases and healthcare.
