joined the University of Dundee in February 2000 after completing his PhD study in immunology/biochemistry at the University of Wales, Swansea. From 2000 to 2010, he worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Radiation Leukaemogenesis Laboratory within the Medical School at Dundee University, led by Prof. Eric Wright. He undertook and successfully completed 3 major research projects: i) proteomic analyses of bone marrow and its response to ionizing radiation supported in part by the UK Medical Research Council and the Leukemia Research Fund; ii) identification of disease- and therapy-associated proteome changes in the sera of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and del(5q) supported by Leukemia Research Fund; iii) a proteomic study of genotype-dependent response to ionizing radiation, which is associated with radiation leukaemogenesis. His contributions to these projects were comprehensive and substantial from project design through to the generation of data for publication. In September 2010, he joined Prof. Susann Schweiger’s group, investigating the actions of novel compounds that interfere with the protein synthesis from mRNA with expanded CAG repeats. The goal of this research was to identify potential protein drug targets for the development of therapies for CAG-repeat expansion disorders such as Huntington’s disease and spinocerebellar ataxia 2. Currently he is working on a collaborative project with the Pharmaceutical Industry under the supervision of Prof Schweiger, Prof. Lambert and Dr Langston to generate an orally delivered medicine that slows the progression of Huntington’s disease in both symptomatic and asymptomatic patients.

Krau? S, Griesche N, Jastrzebska E, Chen C, Rutschow D, Achmüller C, Dorn S, Boesch SM, Lalowski M, Wanker E, Schneider R, Schweiger S (2013) Translation of HTT mRNA with expanded CAG repeats is regulated by the MID1-PP2A protein complex. Nat. Commun. 4: 1511 Aranda-Orgillés B, Rutschow D, Zeller R, Karagiannidis AI, K?hler A, Chen C, Wilson T, Krause S, Roepcke S, Lilley D, Schneider R, Schweiger S. (2011) Protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A)-specific ubiquitin ligase MID1 is a sequence-dependent regulator of translation efficiency controlling 3-phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 (PDPK-1). J. Biol. Chem. 286 (46): 39945-57. Chen C, Bowen DT, Giagounidis AA, Schlegelberger B, Haase S, Wright EG. (2010) Identification of disease- and therapy-associated proteome changes in the sera of patients with myelodysplastic syndromes and del(5q). Leukemia 24(11): 1875-84 Chen C, Lorimore SA, Evans CA, Whetton AD, Wright EG. (2005) A proteomic analysis of murine bone marrow and its response to ionizing radiation. Proteomics 5(16): 4254-63 Chen C, Boylan MT, Evans CA, Whetton AD, Wright EG. (2005) Application of two-dimensional difference gel electrophoresis to studying bone marrow macrophages and their in vivo responses to ionizing radiation. J Proteome Res. 4(4): 1371-80