Prof. Chi Chen earned his B.S. in Pharmacy from China Pharmaceutical University in 1993 and his M.S. in Pharmacognosy from West China University of Medical Sciences in 1998. He obtained a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Science from Rutgers University in 2004 and conducted postdoctoral research in Metabolomics at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), NIH from 2005 to 2008. He currently serves as a Professor in the Department of Food Science and Nutrition at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities. His research focuses on metabolomics-based nutritional biochemistry, investigating the metabolic events induced by diets, chemicals, microbes, and pathophysiological challenges in humans and animals.