Expertise at Chang Gung System

Shen, Chia-Rui ,Ph.D.
Institution: Chang Gung University
Position: Associate Professor
Department: Department of Medical Biotechnology and Laboratory Medicine
Address: No.259, Wenhua 1st Rd., Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City 33302, Taiwan
Tel: +886-3-2118800#5200 Fax: +886-3-2118698
E-mail: crshen@mail.cgu.edu.tw

Focus of Interest:
  • Allergy
  • Immunology
  • MedicalImaging
  • Transplantation

Fulltime Employment:
  • 2010.08 ~ Associate Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University
  • 2000.02-2010.07 Assistant Professor, Department of Biotechnology and Laboratory Science, Chang Gung University
  • 1998.09-2000.02 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica
  • 1993.08-1994.07 Teaching Assistant, Department of Medical Technology, National Cheng Kung University

Education:
  • 1995.01-1998.08 PhD. Pathology and Microbiology, University of Bristol, UK.
  • 1989.10-1993.06 Bsc. Department of Medical Technology, National Cheng Kung University

Honors and Awards:
  • 2008- Council Member, Taiwan Society of Chitin and Chitosan.
  • 2012- Council Member, Chinese Society of Immunology.
  • 2013- Visiting Scholarship, Academia Sinica.

Selected Main Publications:
  1. Shen CR, Yang WC, Chen HW. The fate of regulatory T cells: survival or apoptosis. Cell Mol Immunol 2014 Jan; 11(1): 11-13. (SCI)
  2. Tsai JP, Lee MH, Hsu SC, Chen MY, Liu SJ, Chang JT, Liao CT, Cheng AJ, Chong P, Shen CR (correspondence), Chen HW. CD4+ T cells disarm or delete cytotoxic T lymphocytes under IL-17-polarizing conditions. J Immunol 2012 189:1671-1679 (SCI)
  3. Hwang YS, Chiang PR, Hong WH, Chiao CC, Chu IM, Hsiue GH, Shen CR (correspondence). Study in vivo intraocular biocompatibility of in situ gelation hydrogels: Poly (2-ethyl oxazoline)- block- poly (<epsilon>- caprolactone)- block- poly (2-ethyloxazoline) Copolymer, Matrigel and Pluronic F127. PLoS One 2013 July; (7): e67495. (SCI)
  4. Yang CJ, Liu YK, Liu CL, Shen CN, Kuo ML, Su CC, Tseng CP, Yen TC, Shen CR (correspondence). Inhibition of acidic mammalian chitinase by RNA interference suppresses OVA-sensitized allergic asthma. Hum Gene Ther 2009 Dec; 20(12): 1597- 1606. (SCI)
  5. Shen CR, Youssef AR, Devine A, Bowie L, Hall AM, Wraith DC, Elson CJ and Barker RN. Peptides containing a dominant T-cell epitope from red cell Band 3 have in vivo immunomodulatory properties in NZB mice with autoimmune hemolytic anemia. Blood 2003; 102(10):3800-6. (SCI)

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Board Certification:
  • FOCIS(Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies), member
  • American Chemistry Society, member
  • The Chinese Society of Immunology, member (now as a Council Member)
  • The Chinese Society of Cell and Molecular Biology, member
  • Biochemical Engineering Society of Taiwan, member
  • The Taiwan Society for Chitin and Chitosan, member (now as a Council Member)
  • The Society of Taiwan Women in Science and Technology, member
  • The Taiwan Society of Laboratory Medicine, member