Although Chen has not based her research entirely on traditional Chinese lore, the bottleneck in which Western medicine has found itself stuck in recent years and the resurgence in interest in traditional Chinese medicine both have certainly contributed to the recognition of nutritional immunology as a legitimate field of inquiry and the many awards Chen has won.
雖然陳昭妃並不是完全由中國傳統知識出發，然而營養免疫學能得到肯定，又讓她頻獲獎項，其實與近年西方醫學所遇到的瓶頸，以及中國傳統醫學重新受重視有關。