Work Email Address:
syuchen@mednet.ucla.edu
Lab Number:
(310) 825-6873
Work Phone Number:
310-825-4793
Laboratory Address:
615 Charles E. Young Dr. South
BSRB, Rm 161
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Mailing Address:
615 Charles E. Young Dr. South
BSRB, Rm 173
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Affiliations |
Co-Leader, Pilot and Collaborative Translational Clinical Studies Program |
Professor, Microbiology, Immunology & Molecular Genetics |
Member, CTSI, Immunity, Microbes & Molecular Pathogenesis GPB Home Area, Tumor Immunology Program at the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) |
Dr. Irvin S. Y. Chen, Director of the UCLA AIDS Institute, is Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, Molecular Genetics and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and is an internationally recognized retrovirologist and molecular biologist. Dr. Chens focus is on human retroviruses that are implicated in cancer and AIDS. This form of virus reproduces by creating DNA from RNA and adding its genetic code to the chromosomes of the cells it has infected. Along with his exploration of the disease-causing process of the AIDS virusHIV (human immunodeficiency virus), Dr. Chen also was instrumental in identifying HTLV II, a human T-cell leukemia virus. Dr. Chen was the co-inventor of a diagnostic test for this virus currently used in blood banks throughout the world.