Yu-Ju Chen () is a Taiwanese proteomics research scientist, who leads international projects in proteogenomics.

Education

Yu-Ju Chen received a PhD in physical chemistry at Iowa State University in 1997, under the direction of Cheuk-Yiu Ng. She completed post-doctoral research at Ames Laboratory in 1997, and then at

Yuan-Pern Lee Yuan-Pern Lee (; born 25 January 1952) is a Taiwanese chemist. Lee was born on 25 January 1952 in Hsinchu, Taiwan, the youngest of painter Lee Tze-fan's three sons. Lee studied chemistry at National Taiwan University and pursued a doctorate in th ...

's group at National Tsing Hua University in 1999.

Career

Chen began her career at the Institute of Chemistry of

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...

as assistant research fellow in 1999. She was the Director of the Institute of Chemistry from 2013 to 2019, and is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow. She is also an adjunct professor at National Taiwan University, National Chiayi University, National Taiwan Ocean University, and National Chung Hsing University. She conducts research in mass spectrometry-based bioinformatics, in relation to understanding diseases such as cancer. Since 2016, Chen has participated in the US

Cancer Moonshot Initiative Cancer Breakthroughs 2020, also known as Cancer Moonshot 2020 is a coalition with the goal of finding vaccine-based immunotherapies against cancer. By pooling the resources of multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology companies, academic center ...

, providing proteogenomics expertise as representative of Academia Sinica. She is the project investigator for the Taiwan Cancer Moonshot Project, which analyzes multiomic data related to gastric cancer. She participates in the Chromosome-centric Human Proteome Project, and is the group lead of chromosome 4. Chen served as president for the Human Proteome Organization (2021-2022), the Taiwan Proteomics Society, and the Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry (2012-2015). She has been a council member of the Asia Oceania Human Proteome Organization since 2019. She current serves as executive director of the Taiwan Proteomics Society (2021-2023), and the Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry. She served on editorial boards of ''

European Journal of Mass Spectrometry The ''European Journal of Mass Spectrometry'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all areas of mass spectrometry. It is published by SAGE Publishing and the editor-in-chief is Jürgen Grotemeyer ( University of Kiel). See also *''Mass ...

'', ''

Journal of Proteome Research The ''Journal of Proteome Research'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published since 2002 by the American Chemical Society. Its publication frequency switched from bimonthly to monthly in 2006. The current editor-in-chief is John R. Yates. ...

'', and ''Frontiers in Analytical Chemistry,'' and currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board of ''

Proteomics Proteomics is the large-scale study of proteins. Proteins are vital parts of living organisms, with many functions such as the formation of structural fibers of muscle tissue, enzymatic digestion of food, or synthesis and replication of DNA. In ...

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Awards

* 2023 Tung-Ho Outstanding Research Award, THS Foundation * 2023 16th Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Award, Wu Chien Shiung Education Foundation & L'ORÉAL Taiwan * 2022 Outstanding Research Award,National Science and Technology Council * 2022 Outstanding Research Award,National Science and Technology Council * 2021 National Innovation Award * 2020 Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Medal * 2011 Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Outstanding Scholar Award * 2007 Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Distinguished Young Chemists Award * 2006 Chinese Chemical Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award

References

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