Weina Chen, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Hematopathology; Co-director, Flow Cytometry; Medical Director, Hematology and Hematopathology Lab, UT Southwestern University Hospitals
Professor

Medical School

Shanghai Medical University (1985)

Graduate School

Shanghai Medical University (1988), Clinical Pharmacology

Graduate School

Ecole Polytechnique (1993), Biophysics

Fellowship

National Institute of Environmental Health Science (1995), Research

Fellowship

Duke University Medical Center (1998), Research

Residency

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2002), Anatomic & Clinical Pathology

Fellowship

UT Southwestern Medical Center (2004), Hematopathology

• Flow Cytometry
• Hematopathology (Leukemias and lymphomas)

Featured Publications

Flow Cytometric Features in Double/Triple Hit Lymphomas: Dim CD45 Expression of Limited Diagnostic Utility.

Xu X, Fuda F, Alsuwaidan A, Jaso J, Chen W, Cytometry B Clin Cytom 2019 Jul 96 4 321-322

Loss of EZH2 Reprograms BCAA Metabolism to Drive Leukemic Transformation.

Gu Z, Liu Y, Cai F, Patrick M, Zmajkovic J, Cao H, Zhang Y, Tasdogan A, Chen M, Qi L, Liu X, Li K, Lyu J, Dickerson KE, Chen W, Ni M, Merritt ME, Morrison SJ, Skoda RC, DeBerardinis RJ, Xu J, Cancer Discov 2019 Jun

Breast Implant-associated Plasmablastic Lymphoma: A Case Report and Discussion of the Literature.

Geethakumari PR, Markantonis J, Shah JL, Alsuwaidan A, Shahab I, Chen W, Jaso JM, Clin Lymphoma Myeloma Leuk 2019 Jun

PD1/PD-L1 Expression in Blastic Plasmacytoid Dendritic Cell Neoplasm.

Aung PP, Sukswai N, Nejati R, Loghavi S, Chen W, Torres-Cabala CA, Yin CC, Konopleva M, Zheng X, Wang J, Tang Z, Medeiros LJ, Prieto VG, Pemmaraju N, Khoury JD, Cancers (Basel) 2019 May 11 5

Bright CD38 Expression by Flow Cytometric Analysis Is a Biomarker for Double/Triple Hit Lymphomas with a Moderate Sensitivity and High Specificity.

Alsuwaidan A, Pirruccello E, Jaso J, Koduru P, Garcia R, Krueger J, Doucet M, Chaudhry R, Fuda F, Chen W Cytometry B Clin Cytom 2019 Feb

Minimal/Measurable Residual Disease Detection in Acute Leukemias by Multiparameter Flow Cytometry.

Fuda F, Chen W Curr Hematol Malig Rep 2018 Nov

LILRB4 signalling in leukaemia cells mediates T cell suppression and tumour infiltration.

Deng M, Gui X, Kim J, Xie L, Chen W, Li Z, He L, Chen Y, Chen H, Luo W, Lu Z, Xie J, Churchill H, Xu Y, Zhou Z, Wu G, Yu C, John S, Hirayasu K, Nguyen N, Liu X, Huang F, Li L, Deng H, Tang H, Sadek AH, Zhang L, Huang T, Zou Y, Chen B, Zhu H, Arase H, Xia N, Jiang Y, Collins R, You MJ, Homsi J, Unni N, Lewis C, Chen GQ, Fu YX, Liao XC, An Z, Zheng J, Zhang N, Zhang CC Nature 2018 Oct 562 7728 605-609

A Novel Anti-LILRB4 CAR-T Cell for the Treatment of Monocytic AML.

John S, Chen H, Deng M, Gui X, Wu G, Chen W, Li Z, Zhang N, An Z, Zhang CC Mol. Ther. 2018 Aug

Cytokeratin-positive primary effusion lymphoma: a diagnostic challenge.

Yamani F, Chen W Br. J. Haematol. 2017 Sep

Ascorbate regulates haematopoietic stem cell function and leukaemogenesis.

Agathocleous M, Meacham CE, Burgess RJ, Piskounova E, Zhao Z, Crane GM, Cowin BL, Bruner E, Murphy MM, Chen W, Spangrude GJ, Hu Z, DeBerardinis RJ, Morrison SJ Nature 2017 Aug

 Featured Books

Immunophenotyping by Flow Cytometry for Acute Myeloid Leukemia. In Methods and Protocols in Series Title: Methods in Molecular Biology

Weina Chen, Hung Luu (2016). New York 2016, Springer, Science+Business, LLC

• Dr. Janet Caldwell Memorial Award for Research in Pathology Fellowship (Faculty mentor/Senior author)
  (2016)
• Dr. Arthur Weinberg UTSW Pathology Resident Research Article Award (Faculty mentor/Senior author)
  (2014)
• Dr. Arthur Weinberg UTSW Pathology Resident Research Article Award (Faculty mentor/Senior author)
  (2009)
• Dr. Arthur Weinberg UTSW Pathology Resident Research Article Award (Faculty mentor/Senior author)
  (2008)
• Graduation with Highest Honor, Ph.D in Biophysics, Ecole Polytechnique, France
  (1993)
• Graduation with Honor, MD (ranked 2nd in a class of 300), Shanghai Medical University
  (1985)