Expertise at Chang Gung System

Shiao, Ming-Shi ,Ph.D.
Institution: Chang Gung University
Position: Distinguished Professor
Department: Department of Biomedical Sciences
Address: No.259, Wenhua 1st Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 333, Taiwan (R.O.C.)
Tel: +886-3-211-8800 #3495 Fax: +886-3-211-8700
E-mail: msshiao@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Focus of Interest:
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Medicine
  • Lipid metabolism, Metabolomics

Fulltime Employment:
  • 2012/11- Distinguished Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • 2006 - 2012 Professor, Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
  • 1985 - 2006 Investigator, Department of Medical Research & Education, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1993 - 2007 Adjunct Professor, Graduate Institute of Biochemistry, National Yang Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1990 - 1991 Visiting Scientist, Department of Atherosclerosis Research and Department of Biochemical Regulation, Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co., Rahway, NJ, USA
  • 1980 - 1985 Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 1983 - 1984 National Institute of Health Fogarty Fellow, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
  • 1979 - 1980 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physiological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Wisconsin- Madison, Madison, WI, USA and Project Biochemist, Lipid Metabolism Laboratory, W. S. Middleton Memorial Administration Hospital, Madison, WI, USA

Education:
  • 1974 -1978 Ph.D., Bioorganic Chemistry, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
  • 1968 -1972 B.S., Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan

Selected Main Publications:
  1. Cheng HC, Yang CM, Shiao MS. 1993. Zonation of cholesterol and glycerolipid synthesis in regenerating rat livers. Hepatology., 17(2), 280-6.
  2. Wu YJ, Hong CY, Lin SJ, Wu P, Shiao MS. 1998. Increase of vitamin E content in LDL and reduction of atherosclerosis in cholesterol-fed rabbits by a water-soluble antioxidant-rich fraction of Salvia miltiorrhiza. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol., 18(3), 481-6.
  3. Chen KH, Cheng ML, Jing YH, Chiu DT, Shiao MS*, Chen JK*. 2011. Resveratrol ameliorates metabolic disorders and muscle wasting in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats. Am J Physiol Endocrinol Metab., 301(5), E853-63.
  4. Huang CF, Cheng ML, Fan CM, Hong CY, Shiao MS*. 2013 Nicotinuric acid: a potential marker of metabolic syndrome through a metabolomics-based approach. Diabetes Care. 2013 Jun;36(6):1729-31. doi: 10.2337/dc12-1067. Epub 2012 Dec 28.

 

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Board Certification:
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • American Chemical Society
  • Chinese Biochemical Society
  • Chinese Chemical Society
  • Taiwan Society of Lipids & Atherosclerosis