Principal Investigators

He, Mu
Development and regeneration of the respiratory system Airway mucus and cilia interaction Airway organoid platforms for human disease modeling

Hervas Millan, Rubén
Biophysics and protein structure Protein aggregation in physiological processes Structure and activity of functional amyloids

Javed, Asif
Multi-omics analysis of cancers and rare diseases Computational biology

Kim, Jung
Systemic tumor-host interactions Paraneoplastic syndromes Tumor-dependent stem cell dysregulation Stress-induced blood-brain barrier damage

Kwon, Sung Chul
IRNA biology and genome engineering

Ling, Guang Sheng Heidi
Metabolic reprogramming of CD8⁺T cells in chronic inflammatory diseases

Liu, Yang
How epigenetic markers on chromatin are regulated by histone chaperones and chromatin remodelers

Ni, Tao
Host – pathogen interaction Pore-forming proteins Macromolecule assembly mechanism Cryo-electron tomography and subtomogram averaging

Shih, David Jen Hao
Cancer genomics and somatic evolution Bayesian statistical modeling of complex biological data Deep learning for computational biology and medicine

Sugimura, Rio Ryohichi
Innate Immunity Cancer Immunotherapy Organoids & Stem Cells

Ti, Shih Chieh Jeff
The regulation of microtubule cytoskeleton

Wang, Shoutang
Microglia and neurodegenerative diseases Immunotherapy and translational medicine Cell signaling

Zhou, Keda
Chromatin higher order structures Factors modulating chromatin structures during transcription Structure and dynamics of large molecular machines in DNA related processes

Chu, Zhiqin (Joint appointment with Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering)
Precision biosensing/imaging (e.g., Spin defects in diamond for bio-oriented quantum sensing) Biophysics Biophotonics and materials-biology interface

Chung, Yik Sham Clive (Joint appointment with Department of Pathology)

Chemical biology
Organic synthesis of novel functional tools and drug lead compounds for biological studies and diease therapy
Chemoproteomics and mass spectrometry (MS)
Molecular imaging of cellular signaling molecules

Huang, Yuanhua (Joint appointment with Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science)
Bioinformatics Single-cell genomics RNA splicing Cancer evolution Statistical modelling Machine learning