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Academician Ding-Shinn Chen's Personal Profiles

In addition to his outstanding contributions in space science, Prof. Lee has also led Taiwan's national space team in implementing two world-class space programs, FORMOSAT-2 and FORMOSAT-3, which are expected to make important contributions to international space research, remote sensing technology, and weather/climate applications.

Because of his achievements in liver research, Dr. Chen received many awards locally and internationally, including Outstanding Science and Technology Award from the Executive Yuan of Taiwan 1984, Outstanding Research Award from National Science Council (1987~1993), Outstanding Academic Award ( Life Sciences, 1989 ) and National Chair-Professor of Medicine (1997~), Ministry of Education, Taiwan, Outstanding Achievement Award of the Foundation for the Advancement of Outstanding Scholarship (2005). He also earned Abbott Laboratories Research Award (1986), Grand Award from the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (1993) and the Trieste Science Prize (2006). In 2002, he was conferred Doctor of Philosophy ( honoris causa) from Kaohsiung Medical University, and he was elected Caring Physicians of the World by the World Medical Association (2005). Dr. Chen was elected Member of Academia Sinica in 1992, Fellow of the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2002, and Foreign Associate, US National Academy of Sciences in 2005. He was the President of the Taiwan Association for the Study of the Liver in 1996~98, the President of the Gastroenterological Society of Taiwan (1997~2003) and the President of the Formosan Medical Association (2001~04). He was the President of the International Association for the Study of the Liver (IASL), 2004~06. In 2009, he received International Recognition Award from the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), a very prestigious academic association in the hepatology community. The Asian-Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) also gave the most prestigious Okuda Lectureship Award to Dr. Chen in 2009.

Dr. Chen is a board-certified internist and gastroenterologist. His research interests are in basic and clinical aspects of viral hepatitis and liver disease, covering from prevention to management. He has been Member of the Hepatitis Control Committee of the Taiwanese Government for more than 20 years since its very beginning, and has served as Chairman of the Committee for 10 years.He has a key role in the National Hepatitis B Mass Immunization Program as well as the National Research Program for Genomic Medicine in Taiwan. He also serves as the Science and Technology Advisor to the Premier of the Taiwanese Government.

Dr. Chen has published more than 600 original articles in scientific journals and frequently serves as the reviewer of major international journals in gastroenterology/hepatology and hepatitis research. He was the Associate Editor of Hepatology (2002~06), and is the Associated Editor of Journal of Biomedical Science, Molecular Carcinogenesis and serves on the Editorial Board of many other international journals.