Dr. Chen’s primary interests are retinal vascular biology and pathologic vascular eye diseases, including retinopathy of prematurity, age-related macular degeneration, diabetic retinopathy, and rare orphan eye diseases: familiar exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) and Norrie disease. Her lab studies animal models of these diseases to investigate disease pathogenesis and develop potential therapeutics. She has published numerous papers and lectured nationally and internationally on vascular eye disorders and angiogenesis research.