Wenlong Carl Chen

Carl Chen is a researcher at the Sydney Brenner Institute for Molecular Bioscience (SBIMB), University of the Witwatersrand, and a medical scientist at the South African National Cancer Registry, a Division of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, National Health Laboratory Service. His main research interests lie in studying the genetic aetiologies for common African cancers (including breast, prostate, cervical, and oesophageal cancer). He oversees all active research studies within the Cancer Genetics and Genomics Research Group at the SBIMB. Such studies include the Johannesburg Cancer Study, Confluence Breast Cancer Consortium, the Evolving Risk Factors for Cancers in African Populations study, and the Men of African Descent and Carcinoma of the Prostate (MADCAP) study.