Prof. Dr. Lin Chen is a Research Professor at the Center for Wound Healing and Tissue Regeneration, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA. He earned his MD in Clinical Medicine and MS in Infectious Diseases in China. After working as a physician for a few years, Dr. Chen went to Japan to pursue and earn his PhD from Yamagata University. Dr. Chen then took a two-year post-doctoral fellowship position in the College of Medicine at Rockford, University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), and then became a Research Assistant Professor at the Department of Dermatology, College of Medicine at UIC. He later moved to the Department of Periodontics, Center for Wound Healing & Tissue Regeneration, College of Dentistry, and was promoted to Research Professor in 2022. His research interests include wound healing, skin, oral, apoptosis, angiogenesis, and inflammation.