Lu Chen (scientist)

Lu Chen
Native name	Chinese: 陈路
Born	1972 China
Residence	United States
Nationality	American
Fields	neuroscientist
Institutions	Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater	University of Southern California
Doctoral advisor	Richard F. Thompson
Notable awards	MacArthur Fellows Program, Beckman Young Investigators Award
Spouse	Thomas C. Südhof

Lu Chen (Chinese: 陈路) is a Chinese-born American neuroscientist, who is an Associate Professor of Neurosurgery, and of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, and is a member of the Stanford Neurosciences Institute. She was previously an Associate Professor of Neurobiology and a member of the Helen Wills Neuroscience Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.

She was born and raised in China. She graduated from the University of Southern California with a PhD in Neurobiology in 1998. She studied with Dr. Richard F. Thompson.

Her husband is Thomas C. Südhof, a Nobel laureate in physiology and medicine and a professor at Stanford University.

The long-term goal of Chen's research is to understand the cellular and molecular mechanisms that underlie synapse function during behavior in the developing and mature brain, and how synapse function is altered during mental retardation. Chen discovered an important role of retinoic acid in synaptic scaling.

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