met Amy Ling, his future wife. They courted for several years and got married in 1929 after returning to the states. Upon Chen's hiring at Eli Lilly and Company, they settled down in Indianapolis, IN. Amy was a noted scientist herself and co-authored over 150 articles with her husband. Chen also had a keen interest in Chinese art and helped Eli Lilly amass a substantial collection which was eventually donated to the Indianapolis Museum of Art. His favorite sport was baseball. After his retirement in 1968, they moved to San Francisco until his death in 1988. He currently rests next to Amy in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis, MO. Honors and recognition 1920 Phi Beta Kappa, Univ Wisconsin 1927 China Foundation Prize 1946 Honorary Sc.D., Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science 1948 Academician, Academia Sinica, Republic of China 1952 Honorary Sc.D., Univ Wisconsin 1952 President, American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 1956 State Dept Delegate, 1st General Assembly of Intl Union of Physiological Sciences, Brussels 1963 KK Chen Fellowship & Award established, Indiana University School of Medicine 1965 Remington Honor Medal 1966 AMA Distinguished Service Award 1971 Honorary Sc.D., Indiana-Purdue University 1972 President, International Union of Pharmacology 1974 Scientific Award, Chinese-American Medical Society 1987 KK Chen Auditorium dedicated, Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2006 KK Chen Memorial Exhibit dedicated, Eli Lilly and Company References External links American Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics Eli Lilly and Company Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology Indiana School of Medicine, Department of Pharmacology 1898 births 1988 deaths American pharmacologists University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni Indiana University faculty Members of Academia Sinica Scientists from Shanghai Academic staff of Peking Union Medical College Chinese pharmacologists Chinese emigrants to the United States Eli Lilly and Company people Tsinghua University alumni