Rate My Professor Dahong Chen

Chen has garnered significant recognition, including the NIH Fellows Award for Research Excellence (2018–2019), Nancy Nossal Fellowship Award (2017), Honor Presentation Award from the University of Oklahoma (2014), and Loren G. Hill Excellence Research Award (2012–2013). His influential publications appear in high-impact journals, such as 'CTCF regulates global chromatin accessibility and transcription during rod photoreceptor development' (PNAS, 2025), 'Temporal inhibition of chromatin looping and enhancer accessibility during neuronal remodeling' (Nature Communications, 2021), 'Dosage compensation in Bombyx mori is achieved by partial repression of both Z chromosomes in males' (PNAS, 2022), 'Function and regulation of chromatin insulators in dynamic genome organization' (Current Opinion in Cell Biology, 2019), and 'Shep regulates Drosophila neuronal remodeling by controlling transcription of its chromatin targets' (Development, 2018). He has delivered invited lectures at University at Buffalo, including on chromatin 3D organization in retinal and neuronal development. Chen serves on committees such as seminar organizer, Undergraduate Student Committee, MD student thesis honors, PhD thesis committees, Biomedical Research Advisory Panel, and IACUC. He reviews for journals including Nature Communications, PLOS Genetics, and BMC Biology, and has served as an NIH study section reviewer.