Faculty Members
Director
hclai@mail.cgu.edu.tw
Dr. Lai is the Director of the MRC and Professor at the Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science at Chang Gung University. His main objective is to find new strategies to prevent and treat infectious, inflammatory and metabolic disorders based on recent knowledge in immunology, microbiology and traditional Chinese medicine
TZU-LUNG LIN
Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellow f87445101@ntu.edu.tw
Dr. Lin studies Microbiology and Bacterial Genetics. She aims to identify important bacterial factors in intestinal microbiota to modulate the immunity and gut barrier.
Advisory Committee Member
SHIN-RU SHIH
Ph.D.
Advisor
Dr. Shih is the director of Research Center for Emerging Viral Infections and Professor at the Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science at Chang Gung University. Her team has been studying many aspects of emerging RNA viruses, including identification of unknown viruses using novel biotechnologies, mechanisms of pathogenesis and development of antiviral compounds.
JIM-TONG HORMG
Ph.D.
Advisor jimtong@mail.cgu.edu.tw
Dr. Horng is the director and Professor at Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at Chang Gung University. His research focuses mainly on the molecular interactions between RNA viruses and host cells, and on the development of compounds active against influenza virus and enterovirus 71.
CHENG-HSUN CHIU
Ph.D.
Advisor
Dr. Chiu is the director of Molecular Infectious Disease Research Center at Chang Gung Medical Foundation and Professor at the Division of Microbiology of Graduate Institute of Biomedical Science at Chang Gung University. His research focuses mainly on pediatric infectious diseases and vaccine, bacterial pathogenesis, genetics and genomics.
Research Assistants
Lab Manager
YU-SHAN LO
M.Sc.
Laboratory Manager
Ms. Lo has multiyear experience in laboratory management and accounting. She acts as the coordinator between the center and our collaborators
CHIA-LIN CHUANG
M.Sc.
WEN-HSUAN CHIU
M.Sc.
HUI-LING YEH
M.Sc.
PAO-JEN HSU
M.Sc.