Kuang-hung Cheng
Assistant Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan
Biography
Dr. Kuang-hung Cheng received his Ph.D. in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA USA in 2004. His Ph.D. thesis studies focus on TGFb1/SMAD signaling in gastrointestinal diseases. He spent 5 years post-doctoral training in the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center and the department of Pathology, Brigham’s and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA during 2004-2008. He joined National Sun Yat-Sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan as a faculty member in 2008 fall. He is now an associate professor of Biomedical Science Institute in NSYSU. He have received the Program of Excellence Award, the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund, Inc., USA in 2007. In the last decade, his laboratory has devoted to establish several genetically modified mouse models for human cancer diseases, and use those in vivo disease models to identify new therapeutic nodes for cancer treatment.