In 1993, Chen was named fellow at the American College of Epidemiology, and in 1998, aged 47, he was appointed academician in the Division of Life Sciences at the Academia Sinica.
果然，一九九三年，陳建仁成為美國流行病學學院院士，一九九八年，陳建仁四十七歲時，當選中研院院士。