Professional Experience

2007 - present, Assistant Professor, Tenure Track, Division of Development & Translational Diabetes and Endocrine Research, 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)

This is an abbreviated document. Full CV available upon request. Information on this page may be self-reported and is subject to change at any time. Last updated: 04/13

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 

Professional Memberships

2011, International Society of Stem Cell Research

2004, American Diabetes Association

2001, American Society of Gene Therapy

1997, American Society of Hematology