Lu-Hai Wang
China Medical University, Taiwan
Biography
Lu-Hai Wang has completed his PhD in Molecular Biology at University of California-Berkeley in 1976 and has been dedicated to the research in cancer biology. He holds the Professorship in The Rockefeller University and Mount Sinai School of Medicine since 1979 and 1988, respectively. He was recruited as the Distinguished Investigator and Director of the Institute of Molecular and Genomic Medicine at National Health Research Institute in 2008 and went back to Taiwan. In 2010, he was elected as the Academician, which is the highest honor in academia in Taiwan. In 2012, he was awarded Fellow of TWAS, The World Academy of Sciences. His research interests lie in the molecular mechanism for tumor progression and metastasis. His laboratory has identified several miRNAs involved in regulating, migration, invasion and metastasis of breast, ovarian, and oral cancer cells. He is currently the Vice President of the China Medical University (CMU) in Taiwan and a Chair Professor in the Graduate Institute of Chinese and Western Integrated Medicine, CMU.