Dr. Yunching (Becky) Chen 陳韻晶
Dr. Yunching（Becky) Chen has received her Ph.D. degree in Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2010. She completed her doctoral thesis under the supervision of Dr. Leaf Huang and developed various novel nanoparticle formulations to deliver RNA therapeutics and chemotherapy drugs for cancer therapy. She later worked with Drs. Rakesh Jain and Dan Duda as a research fellow of Radiation Oncology at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. She found the tumor stroma plays an important role on immunosuppression, drug resistance, and cancer cell survival and metastasis. Dr. Chen joined the faculty of National Tsing Hua University as a tenure-track Assistant Professor in 2013. She rose through the ranks to Associate Professor in 2016 and to Professor in 2020. She is also serving as an Associate Editor for Journal of Controlled release (JCR). Her work provides a molecular understanding for effective combination therapeutic approaches and develops various nanoscale drug and gene delivery systems for the treatment of cancer and liver fibrosis.
Education 學歷
2006-2010
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences
2002-2004
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Master of Science, Pathology
1998-2002
National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Bachelor of Biological Sciences
Positions and Employment 經歷
present
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Director, Biomedical Science and Engineering Center
Associate Editor for Journal of Controlled release (JCR)
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
2016-2020
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Associate Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
2013-2016
National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Assistant Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering
2010-2013
Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Research fellow, Tumor Biology and Biomedical Engineering
Honor 榮譽
2005 The Best Poster Award The 19th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences, Taiwan
2008 Young Investigator Award 11th Liposome Research Days Conference, Japan
2009 MOPH Graduate Scholar Award, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC,
2010 AAPS Biotechnology Graduate Student Symposium Awards 2010 AAPS Biotechnology meeting
2013 Award for Promoting Junior Faculty National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan (08/2013-07/2016)
2014 Distinguished Young Investigator Research Grant Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (08/2014-07/2016)
2015 Distinguished Young Investigator Research Grant Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (08/2015-07/2018)
2015 Yong Investigator Award The 5th Asian Biomaterials Congress (ABMC5)
2016 Distinguished Young Investigator Research Grant Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (08/2016-07/2019)
2016 Outstanding Young Investigator Award of Engineering School NTHU
2016 李昭仁教授生醫工程「年輕 學者獎」
2017 清華大學校新進傑出研究獎
2018 清華大學工學院傑出教學獎
2018 科技部吳大猷先生紀念獎
2019 吳健雄學術基金會女科學家新秀獎Promising Women in Science Award
2020 第十六屆永信青年醫藥科技獎 The 16th Young Investigator Award, TienTe Lee Biomedical Foundation
2021 中研院年輕學者成果獎 Academia Sinica Early-Career Investigator Research Achievement Award
