Dr Shen is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Cancer Research at Westmead Institute for Medical Research (WIMR). He was previously a Postdoctoral Scientist at Children's Cancer Institute, UNSW Sydney, Australia. He received his Bachelor of Medicine from Hainan Medical University China in 2007. Followed on completion of his medical degree, he went on to complete a Master of Medical Science in Surgery at China Capital Medical University in 2010. This was followed by his PhD pursuit at the Cure Brain Cancer Foundation Neuro-Oncology Lab, UNSW Sydney, Australia, specialising in preclinical testing of novel therapeutics for treatment of high-grade gliomas. He is currently co-lead the Translational Radiation Biology and Oncology Group at WIMR. As an early career clinician-scientist, he has published 15 original peer-reviewed journal articles with 7 as first author in the field of brain tumours. He has attracted over half a million in research funding as lead investigator from the NHMRC, Cure Starts Now Foundation and DIPG collaborative.