Distinguished Professor
chencj
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EDUCATION AND POSITIONS HELD:
- Professor, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, National Taiwan University College of Public Health,Taipei, Taiwan, 1986-present
- Director, Graduate Institute of Epidemiology, National Taiwan University College of Public Health,Taipei, Taiwan, 1994-1997
- Adjunct Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Tulane University, School ofPublic Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, USA, 1994-present
- Director General, Division of Life Sciences, National Science Council, Executive Yuan, Republic ofChina, Taipei, Taiwan, 1997-1999
- Dean, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, 1999-2002
- Deputy Minister, National Science Council, Executive Yuan, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan,2002-2003
- Minister, Department of Health, Executive Yuan, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003-2005
- Minister, National Science Council, Executive Yuan, Republic of China, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006-2008
- Distinguished Professor, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2006-2015, 2020-present
- Chair Professor, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2008-2015
- Honorary Chair Professor, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan, 2008-2015
- Chair Professor, Catholic Fu-Jen University, Taipei, Taiwan, 2009-2015
HONORS:
- Scholarship for Studying Abroad, Ministry of Education, 1979
- Fogarty International Research Fellowship, US National Institute of Health, 1989
- Outstanding Teaching Award, Ministry of Education, ROC, 1992
- Outstanding Scholar, Foundation for Outstanding Scholarship, 1995-1999
- Academic Award, Ministry of Education, ROC, 1997
- Academician, Academia Sinica, 1998
- National Chair Professor, Ministry of Education, ROC, 1997-2002
- ISI Citation Classic Award, ISI Thomas Scientific, 2001
- Outstanding Research Fellow Award, National Science Council, ROC, 2003
- Health Medal (First Rank), Department of Health, ROC, 2005
- Achievement Medal (First Rank), Executive Yuan, ROC, 2005
- Presidential Science Prize, ROC, 2005
- Member, Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, 2005
- Honorary Member, Mongolian Academy of Sciences, 2007
- Cutter Lecturer on Preventive Medicine, Harvard University, 2008
- Dr. DV Datta Memorial Oration, Indian National Association for Study of the Liver, 2008
- Officier dans l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques, Ministry of Education, France, 2009
- Science and Engineering Achievement Award, Taiwanese-American Foundation, USA, 2009
- Member, Delta Omega Honorary Society in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, 2010
- Outstanding Merit Award, Wang Ming-Ning Memorial Foundation, Taiwan, 2010
- Excellence in Cancer Prevention Award, Taiwan Joint Cancer Conference, Taiwan, 2011
- 14th Prof. Vikit Viranuvatti Lecturer, Gastroenterological Association of Thailand, 2011
- Science Profession Medal (First Prize), National Science Council, ROC, 2012
- Knowledge for the World Award, Johns Hopkins University, 2012
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
Molecular and genomic epidemiology
Researches in the Chen lab encompass a broad spectrum of molecular and genomic epidemiology. They include:
- Long-term follow-up study on the predictability of risk of hepatocellular carcinoma, cervical carcinoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma for various biomarkers of chronic infection of hepatitis B and C virus, human papillomavirus and Epstein-Barr virus, respectively;
- Molecular biomarkers of chronic arsenic poisoning: gene-environment interaction;
- Multiplex family study and association study on susceptibility genes of cancers of hepatocellular carcinoma, cervical carcinoma and nasopharyngeal carcinoma;
- Genomic epidemiological study on susceptibility genes of female lung adenocarcinoma.