2024.04.24-26, Prof. Chen participated in the 3rd International Symposium on Biofunctional Chemistry (ISBC2024) in Japan. The conference, held at Toyota Auditorium, Nagoya University, covered topics such as Chemical probes for cell analysis and imaging, Organic chemistry in cells, New approaches to drug discovery based on chemical biology research, Beyond naturally-occurring biomolecular self-assembly, Chemical approaches to synthetic biology, and Designer proteins and enzymes, with a focus on biological functional chemistry. It involves many fields from chemical biology, protein science, nucleic acid chemistry, biological inorganic chemistry, materials science, supramolecular chemistry and so on.