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Lina Chen

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Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Laboratory Medicine & PathobiologyUniversity of Toronto

Lina Chen

Assistant Professor

Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology

Temerty Faculty of Medicine

University of Toronto

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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13 publications in the last five years, latest in 2026.
Senior (last) author on 2 recent papers, a sign of leading a research group.

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Research

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Latest papers

Establishment of patient-derived xenografts for neuroendocrine tumors in the avian embryo model.
Endocrine-related cancer · 2026
ADPv2: A hierarchical histological tissue type-annotated dataset for potential biomarker discovery of colorectal disease.
Journal of pathology informatics · 2026
Pseudo-Signet Ring Cells: Diagnostic Pitfalls-Insights from Case Reports.
Reports (MDPI) · 2026 · first author

All 17 publications

Latest funding

Delineating the role of cancer cell plasticity during the progression of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
CIHR · 2023 · Co-investigator
$1,093,950

All 1 grants and awards

17 publications.

Establishment of patient-derived xenografts for neuroendocrine tumors in the avian embryo model.

Kulathunga N, Chakraborty R, Li Y, Cherin E, Wang ZZ, Mar S, Khazaee T, Misura A, Lens-Pardo A, Ear PH, Schrader J, Garcia-Carbonero R, Chen L, Huang WY, Tsui H, Singh S, Law C, Hallet J, Demore CE, Leong HS, Michael IP

Endocrine-related cancer2026Open Access

DOI: 10.1530/erc-25-0377 PMID: 41744372

ADPv2: A hierarchical histological tissue type-annotated dataset for potential biomarker discovery of colorectal disease.

Yang Z, Li K, Ramandi SG, Brassard P, Khellaf A, Trinh VQ, Zhang J, Chen L, Rowsell C, Varma S, Plataniotis K, Hosseini MS

Journal of pathology informatics2026

DOI: 10.1016/j.jpi.2025.100537 PMID: 41658283

Pseudo-Signet Ring Cells: Diagnostic Pitfalls-Insights from Case Reports.

Chen L, Wang LM, Chetty R, Kalimuthu SN

Reports (MDPI)2026First author

DOI: 10.3390/reports9020144 PMID: 42200848

Characterization of liver, adipose, and fecal microbiome in obese patients with MASLD: links with disease severity and metabolic dysfunction parameters

Katherine J. P. Schwenger, Julia K. Copeland, Yasaman Ghorbani, Lina Chen, Elena M. Comelli, David S. Guttman, Sandra Elisabeth Fischer, Timothy D. Jackson, Allan Okrainec, Johane P. Allard

Microbiome202516 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1186/s40168-024-02004-7 PMID: 39810228

The Diagnostic Challenges of Disseminated Nocardiosis in a Post-Renal Transplant Patient: A Case Report.

Lin Y, Xu M, Genis H, Andany N, Chen L

Reports (MDPI)2025Senior authorOpen Access

DOI: 10.3390/reports8030111 PMID: 40700244

Links between fecal microplastics and parameters related to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in humans: An exploratory study

Katherine J. P. Schwenger, Yasaman Ghorbani, Sharvika Bharatselvam, Lina Chen, Kristina M. Chomiak, Anna Christina Tyler, Nathan C. Eddingsaas, Sandra Elisabeth Fischer, Timothy D. Jackson, Allan Okrainec, Johane P. Allard

The Science of The Total Environment202430 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2024.176153 PMID: 39260480

Deep learning system for true- and pseudo-invasion in colorectal polyps.

Yang J, Chen L, Liu E, Wang B, Driman DK, Zhang Q, Ling C

Scientific reports20245 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-023-50681-5 PMID: 38172166

Quantitative Nuclear Grading: An Objective, Artificial Intelligence–Facilitated Foundation for Grading Noninvasive Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma

Ava Slotman, Minqi Xu, Katherine Lindale, Céline Hardy, Dan Winkowski, Regan Baird, Lina Chen, Priti Lal, Theodorus van der Kwast, Chelsea L. Jackson, Robert J Gooding, David Monty Berman

Laboratory Investigation202310 citationsOpen Access

DOI: 10.1016/j.labinv.2023.100155 PMID: 37059267

Utility of intraoperative pathology consultations of whipple resection specimens and their impact on final margin status.

Sina N, Olkhov-Mitsel E, Chen L, Karanicolas P, Sun L, Roopchand P, Rowsell C, Truong T

Heliyon2023

DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e20238 PMID: 37810002

Conservative management of multi-trauma induced peritonitis: Experience, outcomes, and indications.

Chen Q, Zhu T, Liu JK, Ding J, Chen L

World journal of clinical cases2023Senior author

DOI: 10.12998/wjcc.v11.i25.5897 PMID: 37727478

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Lina Chen

Research

Latest papers

Latest funding

Establishment of patient-derived xenografts for neuroendocrine tumors in the avian embryo model.

ADPv2: A hierarchical histological tissue type-annotated dataset for potential biomarker discovery of colorectal disease.

Pseudo-Signet Ring Cells: Diagnostic Pitfalls-Insights from Case Reports.

Characterization of liver, adipose, and fecal microbiome in obese patients with MASLD: links with disease severity and metabolic dysfunction parameters

The Diagnostic Challenges of Disseminated Nocardiosis in a Post-Renal Transplant Patient: A Case Report.

Links between fecal microplastics and parameters related to metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) in humans: An exploratory study

Deep learning system for true- and pseudo-invasion in colorectal polyps.

Quantitative Nuclear Grading: An Objective, Artificial Intelligence–Facilitated Foundation for Grading Noninvasive Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma

Utility of intraoperative pathology consultations of whipple resection specimens and their impact on final margin status.

Conservative management of multi-trauma induced peritonitis: Experience, outcomes, and indications.

Delineating the role of cancer cell plasticity during the progression of pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours

Frequent collaborators

Frances Chung

Mahesh Nagappa

Colin Suen

Corwyn Rowsell

Allan Okrainec

Jean Wong

Johane Allard

Sheila Riazi

Minqi Xu

Monica Nido

Weei-Yuarn Huang

Runjan Chetty

Richard Norman

Calvin Law

Tra Truong

Hubert Tsui

Theodorus van der Kwast

Elena Comelli

Subrata Chakrabarti

David Berman

Simron Singh

Iacovos Michael

David Guttman

David He

Tao Wang

Samir Sinha

David Driman

Qi Zhang

Charles Ling

Karim Qumosani

Boyu Wang

Sonal Varma