Supported by the Office of Research & Development and College of Life Sciences & Medicine, Iric received NTHU Startup Funds and New Faculty Incentive. The lab will be built up sooner than later, and new toys just arrived at R209, LSB II. Please keep calm, and there are MORE TO COME!

#biomagnes #NTHU

San Diego, well-known for craft beer, all-year sunshine, and sprawling beaches, is the 3rd biggest biotech hub in USA and forms a major part of the Biotech Beach. With a focus on gastroenterology and neuroscience, Takeda Pharmaceuticals locates one of its global research centers in this bioscience’s hotbed. Dr. En-Ching Luo, an alum of UCSD and NTHU (College of Life Sciences, hooray!), works on RNA-based therapeutics and leverages small-molecule drug to fight against spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). This fall, Dr. Luo will visit College of Life Sciences and Medicine at NTHU, and we look forward to knowing more about her academic, industrial journeys. 

Working in a startup is far more than just being cool since it necessitates creativity, passion, persistence, and insights! At Nutcracker Therapeutics, Dr. Ping-Wei Chen introduced his roles and the company's big picture – to pioneer multimodal RNA-based drug development using microfluidics. Obviously, the efforts on bioanalytical devices and manufacturing systems are revolutionizing biotech industry.

Meet the industry giant! Illumina, the world-leading sequencing company, is located in SoCal and just 1.5 miles from UCSD. Thank Dr. Tony M. Yen for hosting a company tour. The automation systems are truly amazing, allowing a sequencing assay effortlessly done in the all-in-one station.

#illumina #multiomicsera

Coworking with Sofani and Gul, the review paper that features recent microchip-based efforts on single-cell proteomics was published in Lab on a Chip. [link]

Iric was awarded (Regular) Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship [一般院聘博後] from Academia Sinica. He will work with Dr. Hsiung-Lin Tu and SCellSE Lab to investigate single-cell immunodynamics and heterogeneity. Congratulations, Iric! [link] [link]

BETTER LATE THAN NEVER! Two years ago, there was only an ONLINE commencement at UCSD. All we could do was pretend that we dressed up in doctoral (i.e., expensive) gowns and were hooded by the advisors VIRTUALLY.

This year, UCSD held an in-person ceremonial commencement for the Class of 2020. Proud to be a Triton, fiat lux! 

#tritonpride

Iric's paper was published in Analytical Chemistry and was selected for cover art. This work highlights a drug-screening platform using BioFETs. The system measures changes of transmembrane potentials caused by drug-induced polarization in cardiomyocytes. Read more about it here.

Iric won the Best Presentation Award at the Annual Meeting of Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineering (TSBME 2021) for his work on “An Aptamer-based Magentic Flow Cytometer.” Congrats, Iric!

Fiat lux. Iric officially received the Ph.D. degree from UCSD. Due to the pandemics, UCSD only held an ONLINE commencement this year. The upper right photo indicates how hard the road to PhD was, and finally the case was closed.

Fiat lux. Iric successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation titled "Magnetoresistive Devices for Biosensing Applications." The BioEE Group celebrated his achievements with a “chip cake!”