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Peter Chen, MD

Assistant Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute

Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

Peter Chen, MD

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Steven Spielberg Building
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8723 Alden Drive
Los Angeles, CA
90048

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310-423-8784

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310-423-2665

Peter Chen, MD

Assistant Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute

Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine

  • IM/Pulmonary Medicine
  • General Pulmonology
  • Interstitial Lung Disease
  • Sarcoidosis

Asthma

Bronchitis

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

Emphysema

Interstitial Lung Diseases

Lung Cancers

Sarcoidosis

With his research, Peter Chen, MD, tries to unravel basic mechanisms of lung injury and repair. His main focus is on how lung epithelial cells interact with other cellular compartments and with the extracellular matrix to regulate inflammatory cell recruitment, lung fibrosis and cancer tumorigenesis. Chen's laboratory uses cell-based and animal models in its studies and conducts translational research using clinical samples.

  • Residency: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 2002
  • Fellowship: University of Washington Medical Center, 2005
  • Editorial Board: American Journal of Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology, 2013-current
  • Respiratory Cell and Molecular Biology Program Committee, American Thoracic Society, 2013-current
  • Chair, Members in Transition and Training Committee, American Thoracic Society, 2013-current
  • Jo Rae Wright Award for Outstanding Science, American Thoracic Society, 2013
  • VA Merit Study Section, 2012-current
  • Chen P, Abacherli LE, Nadler ST, Wang Y, Li Q, Parks WC. MMP7 shedding of syndecan-1 facilitates re-epithelialization by affecting alpha(2)beta(1) integrin activation. PLoS ONE. 2009;4(8):e6565.
  • Altemeier WA, Schlesinger SY, Buell CA, Parks WC, Chen P. Syndecan-1 controls cell migration by activating Rap1 to regulate focal adhesion disassembly. J Cell Sci. 2012;125(Pt 21):5188-5195.
  • Chen P, Edelman JD, Gharib SA. Comparative evaluation of miRNA expression between in vitro and in vivo airway epithelium demonstrates widespread differences. Am J Pathol. 2013;183(5):1405-1410.

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