About

Yen-Ling Angelo Chiu

Yen-Ling Chiu received an M.D. from National Taiwan University and a Ph.D. in immunology from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He works as a physician, professor, and clinician scientist at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital, Yuan Ze University, and National Taiwan University. He enjoys biomedical engineering, working with people, traveling, and listening to music.

I-Yu Katherine Chen

In the center of the room, there sits I-Yu. She is the administrative head of Chiu Lab and is also the lab expert in flow cytometry and cell culture experiments. She receives her MS degree in biomedical engineering from Chung Yuan Christian University. She is now working on the Immune Age Index and iESRD cohort.

Kai-Hsiang Shu

Kai-Hsiang received his M.D. degree from National Taiwan University and is also a Ph.D. candidate at the Graduate School of Immunology of NTU. He works at FEMH as a nephrologist and loves to read scientific and clinical papers. He is working on the chronic inflammation and mechanism of immunosenescence in renal failure patients.

Ruo-Wei Vivi Hung

Vivi has great scientific curiosity and takes on the biggest project in the lab (TPMIC). She handles all the crazy stuff associated with it. Vivi is good at organizing and she creates wonderful PowerPoint slides.

Yi-Fang Chuang

Professor Yi-Fang Chuang is another key PI of the lab. She received her M.D. degree from National Taiwan University and her epidemiology Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health. She is pivotal in establishing the longitudinal aging cohort EMCIT in New Taipei City. She works as associate professor in epidemiology at National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and adjunct psychiatrist at Far Eastern Memorial Hospital.

Kwan-Yu Lee

Kwan-Yu is a MS student at the Graudate Institute of Medicine at YZU. He received his M.D. degree from Kaoshiung Medical University. Currently, he works as clinical oncologist at FEMH. He is currently trying to use EBV-specific T cells in a clinical trial to treat nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Yun-Ting Juan

Yun-Ting is a first-year MS student at the Graduate Institute of Medicine at YZU. She received her M.D. degree from NCCU and works in FEMH as a nephrologist. Her project is identifying a combination of biomarkers for diagnosing IgA nephropathy to avoid renal biopsy. In her free time, she is usually in Japan.

Yu-Hsiang Rita Huang

Rita just joined the lab in 2022. She was in charge of projects regarding rapid antigen testing for COVID-19 and is now working on using stem cells to treat animal models of kidney diseases.

Bin-Rung Bruce Chuang

Bruce is a medical student at FuJen Christian University. He started to work on NK cells when he joined the lab in 2020. Bruce is trying to publish his first paper on NK cell aging and dysfunction in hemodialysis patients of the iESRD cohort.