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Pancreatic Cancer Cell Escaping Blueprint Brings Hope to Ease Metastasis
Pancreatic cancer is known to be vicious, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is the type that ac-counts for 95% of pancreatic cancer and so far it is still incurable. An added fact makes PDAC doomed lies in its tendency to have metastasis, meaning cancer cells have already spread to other organs, when diagnosed. Read More
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DSG2 Controls Breast Cancer Metastasis
Breast cancer has been the most common cancer in women worldwide. Even though early detection and therapeutic strategies have made breast cancer less life-threatening and increased the 5-year survival rate to more than 90%, the survival rate is still only 30% for later stage breast cancers that have metastasized. Professor Wendy W. Hwang-Verslues discovered that expression of Desmoglein2 ... Read More
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Repurposing Existing Medicines as Anti-COVID-19 Virus Agents
SARS-CoV-2 definitely dominates the worldwide attention in year 2020, the pandemic has taken more human lives than many other major historical pandemics, and it does not have a sign to be under control yet. In February 2020, while it was still unfamiliar to many parts of the world and did not have an official name, professor Chi-Huy Wong had publicly acknowledged... Read More
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Achievements of The Summit Translational Program (2006-2020)
Since outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) in 2003, our society recognized the need to establish translational biomedical research for emerging infectious diseases and other major diseases in Taiwan. Dr. Chi-Huey Wong was invited in 2003 by Former President Yuan-Tseh Lee of Academia Sinica (AS) as the founding Director of Genomic Research Center ... Read More
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Curbing TDP-43 May Ease the Alzheimer’s Disease Progression
Neurodegenerative diseases are making more impacts socially and economically as human life expectancy gets higher and higher. The scientific world still doesn’t have many clues regarding these diseases. Dr. Yun-Ru (Ruby) Chen’s research has been circled around the protein TDP-43 and its role in several neurodegenerative diseases... Read More
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Congratulations to Dr. Chi-Huey Wong for being honored as the 2020 ITRI laureate
Dr. Chi-Huey Wong, currently serving as the president of the Institute for Biotechnology and Medicine Industry in Taiwan besides conducting researches in Genomics Research Center, is honored as one of the seven 2020 ITRI laureates for his innovation-oriented R&D work. He has made significant impacts on the development of the biotechnology industry in Taiwan. Read More
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HONORS & APPOINTMENTS
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Congratulations to Dr. Shie-Liang Hsieh for receiving the MOST 2020 Outstanding Researcher AwardRead More
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Portable Liquid Chromatography Mass Spectrometer wins the Chen’s Team the IBMI Award -
Patient-Derived Tumor Organoid Platform and Cell Bankfor Cancer Precision Medicine wins the Chang’s Team the IBMI Award
Research in GRC Series
Seminars & Events
Surprising Functions of N-α-acetyltransferase in Epigenetics and Obesity [2021-03-10 10:30]
