Principal Investigator
Hwai-Jong Cheng, MD. PhD. 程淮榮博士
Distinguished Research Fellow and Director, IMB
中央研究院分子生物研究所 所長, 特聘研究員
Email: hjcheng@gate.sinica.edu.tw
- IMB PI webpage: http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/ch/research/faculty/hjcheng.html
- IMB director webpage: http://www.imb.sinica.edu.tw/ch/directors.html
- Inauguration and handover ceremony of IMB directorship 所長交接典禮: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIYIKY_k35w
Education
1982-1989
M.D., College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
1991-1995
Ph.D., Cell and Developmental Biology, Harvard University, USA
Employment
1997-2002
PDF, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Anatomy, University of California at San Francisco, and Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University
2002-2008
Assistant Professor, Center for Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (starting 2003), School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
2008-2011
Associate Professor, Center for Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
2011-2020
Professor, Center for Neuroscience, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
2018-2020
Chair, Neuroscience Graduate Group, UC Davis
2020-
Director & Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Additional professional experience
1989-1991; 1996-1997
Clinical Resident, Department of Pathology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taiwan
2008-2012
Master Adviser, Neuroscience Graduate Group, University of California, Davis, California, Davis
2010-2013
Director, Diagnostic and Research Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis
2012-2013
Research Scholar, Graduate Institute of Brain and Mind Sciences, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (Sabbatical leave)
2013-2015; 2016-2019
Master Advisor, Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior, College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
2014-2016; 2017-2019
Committee on Courses of Instruction member, Academic Senate, UC Davis
2014-2020
Executive Committee member, Neuroscience Graduate Group, UC Davis
2015-2017
Faculty Executive Committee member, College of Biological Science, UC Davis
2018-2020
Executive Committee, NIH T32 Training Grant Program in Molecular and Cellular Biology (MCB), College of Biological Sciences, University of California, Davis
2019
Visiting Professor, Brain Research Center and Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taiwan (Sabbatical leave)
Honors and professional activities
1996
Pharmacia Biotech & Science Prize for Young Scientists in Molecular Biology, Regional winner from North America
1997-2002
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Physician Postdoctoral Fellowship
2003
Whitehall Foundation Grant Award
2004
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow
2004
Klingenstein Fellowship Award
2004
The M.I.N.D. Institute Research Grant Award
2012
Faculty Service Award, Neuroscience Graduate Group, UC Davis
2015
UC Davis Academic Advising Award
2016
NACADA Region 9 Excellence in Advising Award
2017
Marshal, Undergraduate Commencement, College of Biological Sciences, UC Davis