- University of Virginia, 2018 (Ph.D.)
- University of California, Berkeley, 2013 (B.S.)
- Dean Louis J. Kettel Award for exemplary student research mentoring, Medical Student Research Program (MSRP) and Summer Institute on Medical Ignorance (SIMI), 2023
- Career Development Award, University of Arizona Health Sciences, 2023
- First Place, University of Arizona Center for Innovation (UACI) Sponsored Launch, 2023
- First Place, WoundShark Innovation Award, Wound Healing Society, 2023
- First Place, Young Investigator’s Award, Wound Healing Society, 2022
- Bernard G. Sarnat, MD, Excellence in Grant Writing Award, Plastic Surgery Foundation, 2021-2022
- Translational Research Grant, Plastic Surgery Foundation, 2021-2022
- First Place Basic Science Research Talk, Stanford Plastic Surgery Research Day, 2021
- Therapeutics, fibrosis, wound healing, foreign body response to biomedical implants, mechanotransduction, regeneration, tissue engineering, biomedical engineering therapies to improve outcomes after injury, skin grafting, chronic wound development, biomedical device implantation, and more
Chen K, Kwon SH, Henn D, Kuehlmann BA, Tevlin R, Bonham CA, Griffin M, Trotsyuk AA, Borrelli MR, Noishiki C, Padmanabhan J, Barrera JA, Maan ZN, Dohi T, Mays CJ, Greco AH, Sivaraj D, Lin JQ, Fehlmann T, Mermin-Bunnell AM, Mittal S, Hu MS, Zamaleeva AI, Keller A, Rajadas J, Longaker MT, Januszyk M, Gurtner GC. Disrupting biological sensors of force promotes tissue regeneration in large organisms. Nat Commun.2021 Sep 6;12(1):5256. PMID: 34489407.
Chen K, Henn D, Januszyk M, Barrera JA, Noishiki C, Bonham CA, Griffin M, Tevlin R, Carlomagno T, Shannon T, Fehlmann T, Trotsyuk AA, Padmanabhan J, Sivaraj D, Perrault DP, Zamaleeva AI, Mays CJ, Greco AH, Kwon SH, Leeolou MC, Huskins SL, Steele SR, Fischer KS, Kussie HC, Mittal S, Mermin-Bunnell AM, Diaz Deleon NM, Lavin C, Keller A, Longaker MT, Gurtner GC. Disrupting mechanotransduction decreases fibrosis and contracture in split-thickness skin grafting. Sci Transl Med. 2022 May 18;14(645):eabj9152. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.abj9152. Epub 2022 May 18. PMID: 35584231.
Chen K, Vigliotti A, Bacca M, McMeeking RM, Deshpande VS, Holmes JW. Role of boundary conditions in determining cell alignment in response to stretch. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2018 Jan 30;115(5):986-991. PMID: 29343646
Chen K, Hu X, Blemker SS, Holmes JW. Multiscale computational model of Achilles tendon wound healing: Untangling the effects of repair and loading. PLoS Comput Biol. 2018 Dec 14;14(12):e1006652. PMID: 30550566