Kellen Chen

Kellen is the Head of Research at TauTona Group, where he helps manage the portfolio of research projects and interfaces with academic institutions for both medical devices and pharmacological therapies. Kellen is also an assistant research professor in the departments of surgery and biomedical engineering at the University of Arizona, College of Medicine Tucson. He completed his postdoctoral research fellowship at Stanford University, PhD in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia, and B.S. in Bioengineering from the University of California, Berkeley. Kellen is currently developing technologies to improve outcomes after surgery, injury, chronic wound development, biomedical device implantation, and more. He is also currently working on obtaining FDA approval for a clinical trial to study pharmacological inhibition of mechanical signaling to accelerate healing of deep dermal injury. He has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications and three book chapters, including first author publications in journals such as the Science Translational Medicine, Nature Communications, PNAS, and Nature Biomedical Engineering. He has received a variety of awards, including the First Place Young Investigator's Award from the Wound Healing Society and the Bernard G. Sarnat, MD, Excellence in Grant Writing Award from the Plastic Surgery Foundation.