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Lirong Chen is a structural biologist whose work has advanced high-throughput protein crystallography, particularly through contributions to the Southeast Collaboratory for Structural Genomics (SECSG). Chen’s research focuses on automating the protein-to-structure pipeline, integrating robotics and streamlined procedures to accelerate the determination of three-dimensional protein structures. Their most cited work, "The high-throughput protein-to-structure pipeline at SECSG" (2005, 24 citations), describes a pioneering automated system that screens, crystallizes, and solves protein structures at unprecedented speed—a critical contribution to structural genomics and drug discovery. By reducing manual bottlenecks, Chen’s pipeline enabled large-scale structural studies, impacting fields from enzymology to therapeutic design. This work exemplifies Chen’s role in bridging automation and biology, making structural data more accessible to the scientific community. Their achievements highlight a career dedicated to methodological innovation, with lasting influence on how protein structures are solved efficiently and reproducibly.