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Hsueh-Fen Juan ( 阮雪芬; Yuki )
Dr. Hsueh-Fen Juan was born in 1969, Miao-Li, Taiwan. She received her BS and MS degree in Botany and PhD in Biochemical Sciences from National Taiwan University (NTU) in 1999. She worked as a research scientist in the Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (Tsukuba, Japan) during 2000-2001 and a postdoctoral research fellow in the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica (Taipei, Taiwan) during 2001-2002. She started her academic career in the Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology as an assistant professor and in the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering at NTU as an adjunct assistant professor in 2002. She moved to NTU in 2004 as an assistant professor in the Department of Life Science and the Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology. She was promoted to be the associate professor in 2006 and full professor in 2009 in the Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, NTU. Dr. Juan studied synthetic biology with Professor Hirotada Mori (NIST, Japan) in 2006 and Dr. James C. Liao (UCLA, USA) during 2007-2008. She is currently working on synthetic biology and systems biology by integrating genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics and bioinformatics for molecular signaling as well as biomarker and drug discovery.
Prof. Juan has developed a number of novel methods to advance systems-biology research and applied such approach for drug discovery and elucidating molecular mechanism of drug responses in cancer cells. She has published more than 100 journal papers. Among these publications, Prof. Juan has breakthrough research achievement in targeting ectopic ATP synthase for cancer therapy, therefore Science Daily & American Chemical Society weekly news reported these results; additionally, she has two papers selecting as ESI highly cited papers in 2013. She is now the editor board of Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group). Since Dr. Juan made significant contributions through systems biology approach to development of methodology and cancer therapy; she received the awards “Taiwan's Ten Outstanding Young Persons” (2008), FY2011 JSPS Invitation Fellowship Program for Research in Japan (2011), K. T. Li Breakthrough Award by Institute of Information and Computing Machinery (2012), and National Science Council (NSC) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges (2010-2015), NTU Academic Performance Reward (2015, 2016) and 2015 USA Emerging Information and Technology Association (EITA) Service Award. Additionally, she has been invited to give more than 160 talks worldwide and leads her team members to obtain more than 80 research awards.
Professor
Department of Life Science,
Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology,
Institute of Biomedical Electronics & Bioinformatics,
Genome and Systems Biology Degree Program,
Center for Systems Biology and Bioinformatics,
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
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Research
Systems biology
Proteomics
Bioinformatics
Transcriptomics
Synthetic biology
Cancer biology
Drug discovery
Bioenergy
Education
1994-1999 Ph.D., molecular modeling & protein chemistry
(advisers: Kung-Tsung Wang & Shyh-Horng Chiou)
Graduate Institute of Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
1992-1994 M.S., plant physiology
1988-1992 B.S., botany
Honors and Awards
2017-2018 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges
2015 Emerging Information and Technology Association (EITA) Service Award (USA)
2015 NTU Academic Performance Reward
2010-2015 Ministry of Science and Technology (MOST)/National Science Council (NSC) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges
2012 K. T. Li Breakthrough Award by Institute of Information and Computing Machinery
2012 The Ph.D. Dissertation Advisor Award by Institute of Information and Computing Machinery
2011 Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Fellowship
2010-2013, National Science Council (NSC) Award for Special Talents of the Colleges
2008 Taiwan's Ten Outstanding Young Persons
2010 NTU Excellent Paper Award
2006~2009, 2011~2012 NTU Distinguish Paper Award
2007 National Science Council Foreign Short Term Research Fellowship
2006 Ministry of Education (MOE) Overseas Research Fellowship
1999 Selected Oral Presentation in 14th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences
1993 The membership in The Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
1992-1994 Ministry of Education (MOE) Top 10% Excellent Master Student Scholarship
1992 Certificate in “Multi-Dimensional NMR Spectroscopy in Solution”, Academia Sinica
1991-1992 The Chung-Cheng Scholarship
1992 The 1st Place at Department of Botany, NTU, Taiwan
1989-1992 National Taiwan University Presidential Award
1989-1992 The Scholarship for Talented Students in Mathematics and Natural Science
1988-1989 The Bursary and Excellence Scholarship
1989 The Thoughts of Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Scholarship
1985-1987 Talented Students in the Training Program for Biological Science in Academia Sinica
1985-1988 Talented Students in Mathematics Class of Taipei Municipal First Girls' Senior High School
Professional Experiences
2015/05-now
2009/08-now
Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, NTU, Taiwan
2015/08-2017/7
2008/08-2009/12
2006/08-2009/07
Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular and Cellular Biology and Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, NTU, Taiwan
2007/08-2008/02
Visiting Scholar, Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, University of California, Los Angeles, USA (Dr. James Liao's Laboratory)
2006/06-2007/02
2006/08-2009/07
Associate Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
2006/07-2006/08
Visiting Professor, Graduate School of Biological Sciences, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan (Dr. Hirotada Mori's Laboratory)
2004/08-2006/07
Assistant Professor, Department of Life Science, Institute of Molecular & Cellular Biology, National Taiwan University
2002/08-2004/07
2001/08-2002/07
2001/04-2001/07
Research Associate, Division of Bioresource, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Tsukuba, Japan
2000/08-2001/03
Research Assistant, Division of Bioresource, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences, Japan