Haoqian Chen, PhD

Director of Sponsored Research,
Center for Pharmacoepidemiology and Treatment Science,
Rutgers Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research

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 Director of Sponsored Research at PETS. She has extensive experience managing organizations and operations, including large research projects in support of investigators at PETS whose studies are funded by multiple NIH R01 grants, non-profit foundations and organizations, and industry partners. Dr. Chen provides full-cycle management of projects and serves as liaison between the Rutgers team and its federal and industry collaborators and funders. She coordinates day-to-day research activities of the study team to ensure that the study maintains necessary documentation, conforms with internal processes, adheres to the proposed timeline, meets the proposed benchmarks, addresses issues and challenges as they arise, ensure data access for analysts, support manuscript preparation, and draft final reports. 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.