Professional Experience

2007 - present, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Beckman Research Institute of City of Hope, Duarte, CA

2005 - present, Member, Beta Cell Biology Consortium, NIH/NIDDK

2005 - 2007, Member, The Black Family Stem Cell Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

2002 - 2007, Assistant Professor, Research Track, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

1999 - 2002, Research Assistant Professor, Department of Gene and Cell Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY

1997 - 1999, Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Cell and Molecular Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

1991 - 1997, Graduate Student for Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC

1990 - 1991, Research Assistant, Department of Pathology, Swine Research Institute, Taiwan

1988 - 1989, Undergraduate Research Fellow, Department of Biochemistry, National Taiwan University, Taiwan

Education and Training

1991 - 1997, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology/Hematopoietic Stem Cell Biology

1983 - 1989, National Taiwan University, Taiwan, B.S. in Veterinary Medicine (equivalent to DVM)

Honors and Awards

1998, Second Prize, Postdoctoral Fellow Group, Student Research Day, Medical University of South Carolina.

1997, Postdoctoral Fellowship Award, National Science Foundation/EPSCoR, entitled “An Interdisciplinary Program in Signal Transduction”.

1995, Second Prize, Senior (Third-year and above) Ph.D. Group, Student Research Day, Medical University of South Carolina.

1986 & 1987, Academic Excellence Award, National Taiwan University

1980, First Prize, National Senior High Research Competition in the field of Biology, Taiwan