ASCI / Emerging-Generation Awards, 2022

Tiffany Chen, MD, is a board-certified anatomic pathologist who completed her anatomic pathology residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts in 2021. She received the 2021 Ruth L. Kirschstein Institutional National Research Service Award and is currently completing her post doctorate research fellowship under Dr. Faisal Mahmood at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She completed her medical training at the Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota in 2018 and received both a Bachelor of Science in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Studies and a Master of Science in Global Medicine from the University of Southern California, Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, California.

Dr. Chen has published over 13 peer-reviewed articles in leading journals like Nature, Nature Medicine, Nature Biomedical Engineering, Cancer Cell, contributed to 1 book, and has presented extensively at both national and international conferences. She has established herself within the field of digital and computational pathology, having published the first computational pathology paper in Nature. The focus of her current research is to create multimodal fusion algorithms combining information from multiple imaging modalities, patient histories, and multi-omics data for enhancing the diagnostic workflow and creating more accurate survival and treatment response predictions for patients. In additional to her research interests, Dr. Chen has a passion for teaching and innovation. She has taught several courses at the Harvard Medical School, Harvard Extension School, assisted multiple research labs in company formation through the Harvard Biotechnology Incubator, and co-directed the Harvard Mini-MBA program.