Jue Chen is the William E. Ford Professor at Rockefeller University and an investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. She received her bachelor’s of science in chemistry from Ohio University in 1993, and Ph.D. in biochemistry from Harvard University in 1998, where she was advised by Dr. Don C. Wiley. She did postdoctoral work at Baylor College of Medicine with Dr. Florante A. Quiocho. She joined the faculty at Purdue University in 2002 and moved to Rockefeller University in 2014. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2019. Chen’s research focuses on ATP transporters including cystic fibrosis conductance regulator (CFTR), the transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP), and the multidrug transporters P-glycoprotein and MRP1.