Prof.Lee-MingChuang Taiwan

Dr. Chuang received his MD in the National Taiwan University in 1978; and the Ph.D from the Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Taiwan University Medical College in 1987. He was trained as a reseach fellow on subject of insulin receptor signaling and cellular physiology under the mentoring of Dr. Ronald Kahn at the Joslin Diabetes Center and the Harvard Medical School at Boston, USA during 1991-1993. He was staff member of the department of internal medicine at the National Taiwan University Medical College since 1988. His research area covered both basic research on insulin action and clinical studies of insulin resistance related metabolic diseases. As one of the active principal investigators of collaborative studies such as the Stanford Asian-Pacific Program in Hypertension and Insulin Resistance (SAPPHIRe) and later to the TOPMed Program, he continued this work from molecular genetics to the multi-omics approaches to understanding traits of glucose insulin homeostasis, obesity and type 2 diabetes. In 2007 he was appointed as Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan Medical College. In 2015 he was appointed as Chair Professor of National Taiwan University based on his promient work on translational research in metabolic disease field. He has been author on more than 400 papers/artices in peer-reviewed journals. His dispine h-index is 78 and his articles have been cited more than 25,000 times.