Yi-Ching Wang
王憶卿 教授
Yi-Ching Wang, PhD 王憶卿 教授
Dr. Yi-Ching Wang received her PhD in Genetics from Michigan State University, USA in 1993. She returned to Taiwan to join the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at Academia Sinica for post-doctoral training. Dr. Wang became an associated professor at Institute of Toxicology in Chung Shan Medical University in 1995. She then joined the Department of Life Science in National Taiwan Normal University and was promoted to professor in 1999. In 2006, Dr. Wang moved to the Department of Pharmacology, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, where she served as Distinguished Professor until 2015 when she took up the current position as a Chair Professor at the same university.
Dr. Wang has published more than 100 SCI papers [including prestigious journals such as Journal of Clinical Oncology, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Nature Communications, Advced Functional Materials, Nucleic Acids Research, Journal of Thoracic Oncology, Cancer Research, Clinical Cancer Research] on lung cancer and esophageal cancer. In addition, her group has reported near 300 conference papers, and obtained 4 Taiwan patents and 1 US patent. Dr. Wang received the Excellent Research Award from Ministry of Science and Technology (National Science Council, Taiwan) in 2004, 2010 and 2014. Dr. Wang was awarded for Excellent Basic Medical Research award from Dr. Wang Min-Ning Memory Foundation in 2017 and K. T. Li Honorary Scholar Award in 2018.
Research Interests
- Molecular cancer biology
- Cancer epigenetics
- Transcription deregulation in cancer
- Vesicle trafficking in tumor microenvironment
- Anticancer drug development
Education and Experience
1993 PhD, Genetics, Michigan State University
1995 Associate Professor, Molecular Toxicology, Chung Shan Medical University
1999 Professor, Life Science, National Taiwan Normal University
2006 Distinguished Professor, Pharmacology, National Cheng Kung University
2015 Chair Professor, Pharmacology, National Cheng Kung University
2015-2018 President, The Taiwan Society For Biochemistry And Molecular Biology
Honors / Awards
2004, 2010, 2014
MOST Excellent Research Award, Taiwan 科技部傑出研究獎
2007
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