Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research
Associate Research Program Manager, Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science (PETS)
hchen@ifh.rutgers.edu, (848) 932-4658
Haoqian Chen (Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2016; M.S., Biomedical Engineering, Columbia University, 2012; B.S.E., Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, 2008) is the Associate Research Program Manager at PETS. She prepares grant applications, provides reports about study progress, obtains IRB approval, ensures IRB compliance and serves as liaison between the Rutgers team and its industry collaborators and funders. Before joining the Center, Dr. Chen’s research focused on the interdisciplinary areas of immunoengineering, mechanotransduction, and imaging of biological systems. Prior to that, she was the senior analyst at a boutique healthcare consulting firm, where she conducted primary and secondary market research to support client projects and produced project deliverable presentations. Before starting her graduate studies, she spent two years at the National Institute of Health (NIH) as a Postbaccalaureate Research Fellow: first at National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) studying mammalian aging, then at National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) providing laboratory support for patients with a rare immune disease.