Education

B.S., National Taiwan University, 1974, Directed by Professor Yu-Shia Cheng.

Ph.D., Yale University, 1980, Directed by Professor Frederick E. Ziegler.

Postdoctoral, Columbia University / Suntory Institute for Bioorganic Research (Osaka), 1981-82, Directed by Professor Koji Nakanishi.

 

Career

*Associate Professor (1982-86), Professor (1986-2006), Distinguished Professor (2006-present), and NTU Chair Professor (2018–present), Department of  Chemistry, National Taiwan University

*Chairman, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, 1993 - 96.

*Research Fellow (joint appointment), The Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, 2003–present.

*Director, National Taiwan University Instrumentation Center (Analysis and Measurement Division), 1998 - 2001.

*Member in the Board of Review: Bureau of Food and Drug Analysis, 1994–2002.

*Coordinator and member of Advisory Board in the Division of Natural Sciences, National Science Council: projects planning, review and budget control: 1997 - 99. Member of Chemical Research Promotion Center: 1999–2001.　　

*Consultant of Ministry of Education, 2005－2007

*Member of Scientific Advisory Board: Institute of Chemistry (2007–2020), Incubation Center (2008–2020), and Research Center for Applied Sciences (2013–2020), Academia Sinica.

*Member in the Council of the Chemical Society in Taipei: 2005–present.

*Executive Editor: J. Chin. Chem. Soc., 1988–1995 & 2000–2006.

*Member in the Board of Consulting Editors: Bioorg. Med. Chem., 1996–2010.

*Member in the Board of Consulting Editors: Tetrahedron Publications,
1996–2010.

*Member in the Board of K.T. Wang Bioorganic Chemistry Foundation, 2000–present.

*Member in the Board of Carbohydrate Research & Education Foundation, 2001–2004.

*Visiting Scholar:
@University of Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France, 1988.
@The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, U.S.A., 1993.
@University of Oxford, U.K., 1996.
@Chuo University (Invited Lectureship
Professor), Tokyo, Japan, 2002.
@Kyushu University (Invited Lectureship Professor), Fukuoka, Japan, 2005.
@National University of Singapore, 2009.

Consultation

*Production of cephalexin, Taiwan Biotech Inc., 1993-1995.

*Production of β-carotene and coumarin laser dyes, Allied Industrial Inc., 1998-2002.

*Production of biotin and DVD-R dyes, Labeltek Inc., 2002-2006.

*Production of antibody against malachite green, Taiwan Advance Bio-Pharmaceutical Inc. Taiwan, 2005-2007.

*Development of anti-influenza drugs, TaiMed Biologics Inc., 2008–2009.

*Development of Glycoscience for vaccines and drugs, CHO Pharma, 2013–2015.

*Development of anticancer drugs, TaiwanJ Pharma, 2015–2016.

*Development of drugs for neurodegenerative diseases, Lifemax, 2015–2017.

*Development of carbohydrate vaccines and anticancer chemical drugs, OBI Pharma, 2015−present.

Teaching

Teach courses of General chemistry, Organic chemistry, Organic synthesis, Biochemistry, and Chemical biology.

Coordinator of teaching affairs.

Revision of students' laboratory tutorials.

International referee of Chemistry Olympia.

Honors

*National Science Council Award for Outstanding Research (five times), 1987 - 96; Invited Principal Investigator (twice), 1997–2003.

*Sun Yat-Sen Award for Academic Publications, 1992.

*Chinese Chemical Society Award, 1997.

* National Taiwan University Award for Teaching Excellence, 1999.

*Chair Professor, Foundation for Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship, 1999–2004.

*TienTe Lee Award for Outstanding Medical and Pharmaceutical Science and Technology, TienTe Lee Biomedical Foundation, 2009.

* Ministry of Education's Academic Award, 2009.

* TBF Chair in Biotechnology of Taiwan Bio-Development Foundation, 2014–2023.

*Academic Contribution Award, TASCO Group, 2016.

* National Chair Professorship, Ministry of Education, 2017–2019.