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Wen-Tien Chen, PhD

Research Professor

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Research Professor Wen-Tien Chen is an international expert in cancer metastasis. Before joining Stony Brook Medicine in 1998, Dr. Chen was the Director of the Tumor Invasion and Metastasis Program at Georgetown University Lombardi Cancer Center. Throughout his career, he has developed novel methods to isolate and analyze metastatic cancer cells and holds a number of patents for these technologies. His most recent work focuses on circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and their use in detecting endothelial ovarian cancer.