News and Events
Lab News
Oct. 2025
Prof. Shelley Minteer from MS&T visited us!!!
Congratulations to Kai-Yuan (Joanne) Chiu for winning the Jordan Hu Taiwan Scholarship!!!
Sep 2025
Two supplementary cover pictures are published for our papers in Analytical Chemistry. Congratulations to Yongqing and Bella!!!
Aug 2025
Our new NSF proposal for PFAS research has been approved, We thank NSF for the grant support!!!
Our sub-award from NSF Center of Synthetic Organic Electrochemistry (CSOE) has been approved. We thank NSF for the grant support and Dr. Shelley Minteer for her leadership!!!
We thank Colgate-Palmolive Co. for continued grant support for our collaboration!
Congratulations to Huifang (Bella) Yao for successfully completing her PhD defense!
April 2025
Congratulations to our high school researcher Zhenghao Zhou for adimission to University of California Berkeley!
Congratulations to our undergrad researcher Katya Cunha, for winning the American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) scholarship!
Mar. 2025
Prof. Scott Anderson from University of Utah visited our laboratory at NJIT!
Nov. 2024
We thank Colgate-Palmolive Co. for continued grant support for our collaboration!
Congratulations to Mengyuan Xiao for obtaining Co-op training opportunity in Colgate-Palmolive Co.!
Oct. 2024
Prof. Hui Zhang from Johns Hopkins visited our laboratory at NJIT!
July 2024
We thank Colgate-Palmolive Co. for continued grant support for our collaboration!
We thank Agilent for the arrival of their 6545XT QTOF and a 1290 BioLC system for our collaboration!
Congratulations to Brandon Sanchez for wining the first place in our REU Summer Research Symposium Poster Session!
Congratulations to Md Tanim-Al Hassan for winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from College of Science and Libral Arts (CSLA)!
Dr. Mingshe Zhu from XenoFinder Co. visited our lab!
March 2024
Congratulations to Timothy for getting a co-op offer from Merck Co.!
Congratulations to our high school researchers Arjun for being admitted to UPenn & Cornell and to Gracelyne for being admitted to MIT & Harvard!
Prof. Frank Xiao from Univ. Missouri and Prof. Qinghai Zhang from Scripps Research Insitute visited our lab!
Dec 2023
Congraultations to Yongling Ai for obtaining her PhD degree and will work for Novatis Pharmaceuticals!!!
Nov. 2023
Prof. Stepen Previs from Merck visited our lab!
Oct 2023
Dr. Patrick Fedick from the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) visited visited our lab!
Sep 2023
Prof. Junmin Peng from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital visited visited our lab!
July 2023
Congratulations to Gigi Chen from Haverford College for wining the first place in our REU Summer Research Symposium Poster Session!
May 2023
Merck Exectuive Director Dr. Xiaoyi Gong and Senior Principle Scientest Dr. Jinjian Zheng visited our lab!
April 2023
Prof. R. Graham Cooks from Purdue University visited our lab!
March 2023
Our NIH R21 proposal and Merck collaboration proposal have been approved. We thank NIH and Merck Co. for the grant support!!!
Prof. Chrys Wesdemiotis from the University of Arkon visited our lab!
Prof. Timothy Swager from MIT visited our lab!
Feburary 2023
Welcome Jinyuan Zhang from Incyte PA joining us as a part-time PhD student!
We thank New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) for funding on our Coulometric Mass Spectrometric Method!
January 2023
Welcome Andrew Schladebeck from Johnson&Johnson, Qing Ye from PTC Therapeutics and Adrian Giuliano from PDI Healthcare joining us as part-time PhD students!
Congratulations to Yongling Ai for her paper in Anal. Chem. titled "Rapid Characterization of Antibodies via Automated Flow Injection Coupled with Microdroplet Reactions and Native Mass Spectrometry" to be selected as a supplementary cover.
Janurary
December 2022
Our high school researcher Jeffrey Xu has been admitted to Princeton University for his undergraduate study! Big Congratulations to Jeffrey Xu!!!!
November 2022
Congratulations to Yongling Ai for winning the 2022 CASMS conference ligthening talk award!
October 2022
Congratulations to Bella Yao for her paper in JOC titled "One-Step Regio- and Stereoselective Electrochemical Synthesis of Orexin Receptor Antagonist Oxidative Metabolites" to be selected as a supplementary cover.
Sep 2022
Congratulations to Yongling Ai for winning the ASMS Fall Workshop Student Travel Award!
NJIT new coverage for our recent work for standards-free absolute quantitation of antibody impurities and degradation:
https://news.njit.edu/njit-researchers-unlock-new-method-testing-protein...
July 2022
Our NSF proposal of CMI has been approved. We thank NSF for the grant support!!!
Congratulations to Yongling Ai for winning the ASMS Student Travel Award from the Delaware Valley Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group!
Welcome Prof. Juan Suárez from University of Malaga in Spain to visit us at NJIT for 3 months!
June 2022
Congratulations to Dr. Qi Wang for receiving the IJMS Best Student Paper Award 2021 from Editor-in-chief Prof. Julia Laskin!!!
May. 2022
Congratulations to our high-school researcher, Mr. Jeffrey Xu, for coauthoring one paper in JASMS titled "Investigation of Tryptic Protein Digestion in Microdroplet and in Bulk Solution"!
April 2022
Congratulations to Qi Wang for joining Merck. Co!!!
Congratulations to Qi Wang for wining the IJMS Best Student Paper Award 2021!!!
Mar. 2022
Congratulations to our high-school researcher, Mr. Jeffrey Xu, for winning 1st place in Chemistry at the New Jersey Science Fair for his summer research on tryptic microdroplet digestion!
Dec 2021
Congrationals to our high school researchers Tracy Liu and Charles Yu for early admission to Wellesley College and Princeton Univeristy, respectively!
Our second Orbitrap mass spectrometer, LTQ Orbitrap, is up running now. Thank Merck Co. for generous donation!
Oct 2021
Welcome Prof. Victor Ryzhov (Northern Illinois University) to spend his sabbatical time with us!
Sep 2021
Welcome our new Phd Student, Md Tanim-Al-Hassan joined this group!
July 2021
Congratulations to Joanne Chiu for winning the ASMS Student Travel Award from the Delaware Valley Mass Spectrometry Discussion Group!
June 2021
Congratulations to Qi Wang for winning the prestigous Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS) Graduate Student Research Award!
May 2021
Congratulations to Qi Wang for winning the Outstanding Graduate Student Award from College of Science and Libral Arts (CSLA)!
April 2021
Congratulations to our high school researcher Edward Wang for admission to the Johns Hopkins University!
Feb 2021
Congratulations to Perry for joining AstraZeneca!
Jan 2021
We received a Sciex 4000 QTRAP LC/MS/MS System and a Thermo Scientific LTQ-Orbitrap Mass Spectrometer from Merck. Co.. We thank Merck Co. very much for generous donation!
Nov. 2020
Congratulations to Perry for his successful PhD defense!
Our undergraduate Yasmine M. Mohamed coauthored a paper (Chem. Sci. 2021, 12, 969 - 975).
Our undergraduate Tariq Alnsour coauthored a paper (JASMS 2020, 31, 2226–2235).
October 2020
Our paper in Analytical Chemistry titled "Capture of electrochemically-generated fleeting carbazolium radical cations and elucidation of carbazole dimerization mechanism by mass spectrometry" was selected as a supplementary cover.
June 2020
Our joint project with Dr. Farinas and Dr. Kim was funded by a NIH R15 award.
Congratulations to Patrick Moore, Yasmine Ghattas, Noreen Kamel, Tariq Alnsour and Yasmine Mohamed for their graduations!!!
Congratulations to Pengyi Zhao for winning the Graduate Student Association High Involvement Department Award!
Congratulations to Pengyi Zhao for winning the Graduate Award from Eastern Analytical Symposium (EAS)!
Dr. Chen received the recognition of Research Advisor of the Year, Albert Dorman Honors College of NJIT, Class of 2020.
Feb 2020
LC/MS (Advion) and GC/MS (ThermoFisher Scientific) have been installed in our forensic science lab at NJIT.
Jan 2020
Welcome Ms. Lena Jeevitha to join our lab as a master student!
Dec 2019
Welcome Ms. Joanne Chiu from ACCU Reference Medical Lab to join our lab as a part-time PhD student!
July 2019
Sub-awards to us from Dr. Faik's USDA project and Dr. Farnoud's NIH project have been approved..
June 2019
Welocme Yasmine Ibrahim, Portia Shaheed,Kristen Abraham, Saniya Saxena and Jiashu Wu to start research in our lab.
May 28, 2019
Pengyi Zhao started his summer internship at Merck.
April 23, 2019
Prof. Dick Zare and Susan Zare from Stanford Univeristy visited our lab.
Janurary 30, 2019
Prof. Yong Guo, from Fairleigh Dickinson Univeristy, is visiting us during his sabbatical leave.
Prof. Yueming Zhou, from East China University of Technology, is visiting our lab.
October 24, 2018
New Q-Exactive Orbitrap MS
Our new Q-Exactive Orbitrap high-resolution MS begins its serving.
September 1, 2018
A New Chapter in NJIT
The Chen Research Group moved from Ohio University to New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT).