Xinsong Chen

A researcher with years of experience and verifiable achievements in oncology, experimental pathology, cell and molecular biology, tumor biology, and virology from leading laboratories at Karolinska Institutet (KI). Currently, I am working as a research specialist (senior scientist) at the Oncology-Pathology department of KI and Karolinska University Hospital, with the main focus on studying breast cancer biomarkers, establishing novel diagnostic approaches for improving patient segmentation, precision oncology using various sequencing base tools, and developing various cancer patient biopsies-based IVD assays for better prediction of treatment response and facilitate drug development. I also participated in the preparation and management of several clinical trial translational studies.

My primary research interests are studying intra-tumoral heterogeneity using multi-omics datasets and multi-modality approaches, integration of computational pathology image analysis approaches with spatial transcriptomic and proteomic analysis, precision medicine & diagnostics for breast cancer patients, as well as translational medicine studies from clinical trials or patient cohorts.

Course supervisor and thesis examiner for bachelor's and master’s students at the Biomedicine program KI.

Co-supervisor for 3 Ph.D. students at the Department of Oncology-Pathology, for 1 Ph.D student at the Department of Medicine, Solna, KI.

Lecturing undergraduate to Ph.D. level courses at KI, including Basic Tumor Biology, Basic Tumor Histopathology, Molecular Pathology, Molecular Medicine - Oncology, etc.