CHUNG-LIANG CHIEN, Ph.D. is a Professor in the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He has been teaching anatomy to medical and dental students for more than 23 years. His major research interests are neurobiology and stem cell biology. Dr. Chien received his Ph.D. degree from the Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University in 1995. Dr. Chien has been one of the faculty members at the Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University (NTU) since 1995. He took a research leave as a visiting scientist at the Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo in 1999. 

His major research interests are neurobiology and stem cell biology. As an internationalized medical educator, more than 42 medical students from 20 different countries have been trained at his stem cell biology laboratory since 2004. Under Dr. Chien’s supervision, 11 graduate students earned their Ph.D. degree from the institution at NTU. Most of them received faculty or clinical positions at university/medical centers. Since 2007, Dr. Chien served as the Associate Dean of College of Medicine, as well as the Deputy Director of the NTU Center of Genomic Medicine to promote the translational medicine research within NTU campus.

Dr. Chien works for Taiwan academic society actively and had been elected as the 12th and the 13th President of the Association of Anatomists of the Republic of China (2010-2014). He was also elected as the 3rd and the 4th President of the Taiwan Society for Stem Cell Research (2013-2017). Besides, Dr. Chien was recommended as the representative of Chinese Taipei as well as the Chair of Research & Development Steering Committee in the Life Science Innovation Forum (LSIF) of the APEC from 2014 to 2016. In terms of government positions, Dr. Chien had served as the Deputy Executive Secretary at the Office of Science and Technology, Executive Yuan (2012-2014), as well as the Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology (2014 – 2016).

Currently, Dr. Chien served as the CEO of the Institute for Biotechnology and Medicine Industry (IBMI) to promote the potential collaboration between academia and bio-industry in Taiwan. Besides, IBMI just launched the international platform of “Taiwan Healthcare+”, a website PORTAL for medical and biotech opportunities in Taiwan.  He is the faculty contact of the program at the National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.