Expertise at Chang Gung System

Yen, Hsiu-Chuan ,Ph.D.
Institution: Chang Gung University
Position: Associate professor
Department: Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science
Address: No. 259, Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan Tao-Yuan, 333 Taiwan (R.O.C)
Tel: +886-3-2118800 ext. 5207 Fax: +886-3-2118692
E-mail: yen@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Focus of Interest:
  • Biochemistry and Molecular Biology – Medicine
  • Medical Technology, and Clinical Pathology
  • Free Radical and Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine

Fulltime Employment:
  • 1997/8-1998/2: Postdoctoral scholar at Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky (USA)
  • 1998/3 -1999/3: Postdoctoral fellow at Center for Molecular Medicine, Emory University (USA)
  • 1999/4-2007/7: Assistant professor, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University
  • 2007/8-present: Associate professor, Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University

Education:
  • 1988/10-1992/6: B.S., School of Medical Technology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (Taiwan)
  • 1992/8-1997/7: Ph.D., Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky (USA)

Honors and Awards:
  • Young Investigator Award in the 5th Annual meeting of The Oxygen Society (now as Society for Free Radical Biology and Medicine) at Washington DC, USA, November 22, 1998.
  • “Excellent Research Paper Award” in the 19th Joint Annual Conference of Biomedical Sciences awarded by Toxicology Society of Taiwan, April 10-11, 2004.
  • “Excellent Teacher Award in Student Counseling” (優良教師輔導獎) of year 2009 from Chang Gung University.
  • “Excellent Research Paper Award” from Taiwan Society of Laboratory Medicine, October, 2010.

Selected Main Publications:
  1. C-L Lin, Y-T Hsu, T-K Lin, J D Morrow, J-C Hsu, and T-C Hsieh, P-K Tsay, and H-C Yen*.  2006 April.  Increased levels of F2-isoprostanes following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in humans.  Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 40: 1466-1473.
  2. Y-P Hsieh, C-L Lin, A-L Shiue, H Yin, J D Morrow, J-C Hsu, T-C Hsieh, H-J Wei, H-C Yen*. 2009 September. Correlation of F4-neuroprostanes levels in cerebrospinal fluid with outcome of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage in humans. Free Radical Biology & Medicine, 47: 814-824.
  3. S-W Chen, C-C Liu, H-C Yen*.  2013 March.  Detection of suppressed maturation of the human COQ5 protein in the mitochondria following mitochondrial uncoupling by an antibody recognizing both precursor and mature forms of COQ5. Mitochondrion, 13: 143-152.
  4. H-C Yen*, S-L Li, W-C Hsu, P Tang. 2014 March. Interference of co-amplified nuclear mitochondrial DNA sequences on the determination of human mtDNA heteroplasmy by using the SURVEYOR Nuclease and the WAVE HS system. PLOS ONE, 9: e92817 (1-18).
  5. H-C Yen*, C-C Liu, C-C, Kan, C-S Chen, H-R Wei. 2014 September. Suppression of coenzyme Q10 levels and the induction of multiple PDSS and COQ genes in human cells following oligomycin treatment.  Free Radical Research, 48: 1125-1134.
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