Dr. Han-Chung Wu is currently the Research Fellow of Institute of Cellular and Organismic Biology, Academia Sinica, a professor of Institute of Pathology and Graduate Institute of Oral Biology, National Taiwan University (NTU) and a Joint Research Fellow at Genomics Research Center of Academia Sinica since 2010. His research interest lies in the identification of cancer-specific ligands and development of ligand-mediated target therapy and molecular imaging.
Dr. Wu is the author of more than 30 scientific publications and was awarded a number of academic honors, including Academia Sinica Young Investigator Award in 2008 (2008年中央研究院年輕學者研究著作獎), NSC Outstanding Research Award, National Science Council, Taiwan in 2011 (2011 國科會傑出研究獎), MOST Outstanding Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan in 2015 (2015 科技部傑出研究獎) and International Inventor Prize and Lifetime Achievement Academic Award in 2018 (2018第十四屆IIP國際傑出發明家終身成就獎).
Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. from Institute of Pathology, National Taiwan University in 1993.