Dr. Chandan K Sen (www.chandansen.org; Google H-index 116) is an Endowed University Professor and Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine and Associate Vice Chancellor for Life Science Innovation and Commercialization at the University of Pittsburgh. He serves as the Chief Scientific Officer, Wound Services, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Sen has been elected fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Sen’s most recent space related work is titled: An Epigenetic Trigger for Induction of Genomic Plasticity Following Exposure to Space Environment: Mission SpaceX CRS-19 RRR-1. The work is in process of publication. This work reports on the induction of genomic plasticity in response to exposure to space environment as a mark of biological resilience that is evident in a minority of organisms, responders but not in non-responders, exposed to the space environment.
Until June of 2023 he was Distinguished Professor and the J. Stanley Battersby Chair of Surgery, and Director of the Indiana Center for Regenerative Medicine and Engineering (ICRME). At Indiana University, he served as Associate Vice President of Research. At the IU School of Medicine, he served as Associate Dean of Research. At IU Health he served as the Executive Director of the Comprehensive Wound Center. Dr. Sen serves on the Executive Committee of the NIH Diabetic Foot consortium. He is the PI of the Pennsylvania Clinical Research Unit and the PI of the first DFC study to complete also known as the “TEWL” study. After completing his Master of Science degree in Human Physiology from the University of Calcutta, Dr. Sen received his PhD in Physiology from the University of Eastern Finland. Dr. Sen trained as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley's Molecular and Cell Biology department. His first faculty appointment was at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. In fall of 2000, Dr. Sen moved to The Ohio State University where he established a program on tissue injury and repair. At Ohio State, Dr. Sen was tenured John H & Mildred C Lumley Professor of Surgery, Executive Director of The Ohio State University Comprehensive Wound Center and Director of the Ohio State University's Center for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Based Therapies. He was also the Associate Dean for Research at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center for well over a decade. Till August 2018, Dr. Sen served as director of the Innovation program for The Ohio State University's Center for Clinical and Translational Science and was Professor and Vice Chair of Research of Surgery. In July 2023, Dr. Sen and his entire team moved to the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Sen is a Principal Investigator of several NIH and DoD projects. Dr. Sen and his team have published 400 scientific publications. He has an H-index of 115 and is currently cited over 52,000 times in the literature.
