​​​​​​​Penn senior Kevin Chen of Fremont, California, has been selected for a Churchill Scholarship from the Winston Churchill Foundation, which will allow him to study abroad for a year at Churchill College at the University of Cambridge in the U.K.

A Vagelos Scholar and Goldwater Scholar, Mr. Chen has been working in Yale E. Goldman’s lab in Penn’s department of physiology since 2015. He developed optical devices for sensing single molecules in biochemical reactions and used the technique to study the mechanisms of drugs that treat genetic disease.