PRINCIPLE INVESTIGATOR

Yung-Tsung Chen, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor

Yung-Tsung Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Food Science at the National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan. He trained as a microbiologist at National Taiwan University. Dr. Chen found that a probiotic strain, Lactobacillus mali APS1, isolated from sugary kefir, manipulated gut microbiota and metabolites, resulting in the reduction of body fat accumulation and improvement of hepatic steatosis via SIRT1/NRF2 pathway in his Ph.D. He then worked as a senior researcher at SYNBIO TECH Inc., a probiotic manufacturing company in Taiwan, and he focused on the research associated with functional probiotics development. His research interests include investigating the interaction between the gut microbiome and the host metabolism and the impact of synbiotic supplementation on metabolic syndrome. 

ＷORK EXPERIENCE

2022-Present, Department of Food Science, National Taiwan Ocean University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

2021-2022, General Research Service Center, National Pingtung University of Science and Technology, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

2018-2021, SYNBIO TECH INC., Taiwan (R.O.C.)

EDUCATION

2018, National Taiwan University, Taiwan (R.O.C.)

AWARDS and PRIZES

  • 1st prize, Oral presentation at Taiwan Society of Microbiology Annual Meeting and Symposium, 2021
  • Invited speaker, The Korean Society of Applied Pharmacology, Korea, 2019
  • Outstanding Paper Award, Annual Congress of Lactic Acid Bacteria, Taiwan, 2018
  • Young Scientists Award, The 5th Asian Federation of Societies for Lactic Acid Bacteria International Symposium, Taiwan, 2017
  • Young Scientists Award, The 17th Asian Australasian Animal Production Animal Science Congress, Japan, 2016
  • Young Investigator Award Merit, The 13th International Conference on Biomedical Engineering, Singapore, 2008