Ziwei Chen, PhD

Zi-Wei Chen is a research assistant professor in the Division of Basic Research. She was born in China and got her PhD in Peking University. She had her postdoc training in University of California, Los Angeles. She then moved to St. Louis and joined Dr. Alex Evers’ lab in 2007.

Ziwei has been enjoying the active and collaborative research environment at Washington University. Her major research interests are to characterize anesthetics binding sites in central nervous systems.

Outside of work, Zi-Wei loves cooking and spending time with her two children.