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Professor
National Central University, Taiwan (Republic of China)
Dr. Yu-Hsiang Lee is a Distinguished Professor in Dept. Biomedical Sciences & Engineering at National Central University (Taiwan ROC). He received his B.S. degree from Ch.E./Tunghai University in 1998, M.S. degree from Ch.E./University of Southern California (USA) in 2002, and Ph.D. from Ch.E./University of Southern California (USA) in 2006. He held the research scientist position from 2006 to 2008 in a biotech company at Reno, NV. USA right after receiving Ph.D. degree, where he led drug discovery projects regarding telomerase-activated compounds for curing aging-related diseases. Afterward, he joined UCLA Dental Research Institute as a postdoctoral fellow from 2008 to 2010, where he worked on multiple salivary transcriptomic biomarkers discovery projects for early diagnosis of ovarian/oral/lung cancers and type II diabetes. He took the faculty position as an Assistant Professor in Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering at National Central University since 2010 and was promoted to Associate Professor and professor in 2014 and 2019, respectively. Now his research interests are focused on 1) nanomedicine for cancer & bacterial infection therapies, 2) hydrogel-based biomaterials for chronic wound healing, 3) photobioreactor engineering for enhanced microalgae cultivation and production, and 4) mechanotransductional biology for vascular & tumor microenvironmental studies.