Jen Sheen is a Taiwanese-American biologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who is known for her work on plant signaling networks.
Sheen's interest in plants followed her childhood on a sugarcane plantation in rural Taiwan.
Concurrently she has held positions in molecular biology at Massachusetts General Hospital.
[5] While a graduate student at Harvard University, she worked on the genetic system of maize with the goal of increasing crop yields.
[4][6] When starting her own lab, she established a model system using plant protoplasts, cells which can be maintained easily in laboratory containers.