Yu Chen is a professor in the Department of Molecular Medicine in Morsani College of Medicine at the University of South Florida. He earned a BS in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Peking University, Beijing, China (1997), and a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Chicago (2002). After completing postdoctoral research at the Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of California San Francisco, he started his independent research position first as assistant professor at USF in 2009. His lab focuses on structure-based inhibitor design against β-lactamases, penicillin-binding proteins and other infectious disease targets.
