Ruey-Hwa Chen
Institute of Biological Chemistry-Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Biography
Ruey-Hwa Chen has received BS and MS degrees from National Taiwan University and PhD degree from Michigan State University. In 2006, she relocated to Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica to be a Research Fellow and promoted to Distinguished Research Fellow in 2012. She was also an Associate Professor and Professor at National Taiwan University. She has served as Deputy Director of Institute of Biological Chemistry in 2011-2013. She has received several awards, including Outstanding Scholar Research Grant, National Science Council; Merit Research Award, National Science Council; Outstanding Award, TienTe Lee Biomedical Foundation; TBF Chair in Biotechnology; the 59th Academic Award, The Ministry of Education; Merit MOST Research Fellow Award and Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science, Wu Chien-Shiung Education Foundation. Her current research focuses on protein ubiquitination in tumorigenesis and tumor progression and protein ubiquitination in autophagy.