Professional Career

• Assistant Professor (2025 – present)

Graduate Institute of Biomedical Materials and Tissue Engineering, Taipei Medical University

• Postdoctoral Fellow (2021 – 2025)

Department of Chemistry, National Cheng Kung University

• Postdoctoral Fellow (2019 – 2020)

Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica

Education

• Ph.D., Biomedical Engineering, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan

• M.S., Medical Mechatronics, Chang Gung University, Taiwan

• B.S., Biomedical Engineering, I-Shou University, Taiwan

Honor

• 2026   Mu-Yun Outstanding Young Scholar Award. 牟昀優秀年輕學者獎 台灣奈米生醫學會

• 2025   Certificate of the 22nd National Innovation Award, Taiwan.  第22屆國家新創獎 － 學研新創獎

• 2025   Future Technology Award, Taiwan.  未來科技獎

• 2024   The Best Poster Presentation Award in the 17th International Symposium on Nanomedicine in Nagoya, Japan. 

• 2024   Second Place, Young Investigator Award, at the 6th Global Conference on Biomedical Engineering. 

           2024年全球生物醫學工程年會 - 年輕學者口頭論文競賽 - 第二名

• 2024   Distinguished Mention Award Best Poster Presentation at the 2024 International Conference of Taiwan Nanomedicine 

           Society and Light for Health & Medical Association. 

           2024年台灣奈米生醫學會暨光健康醫療科技創新發展協會國際研討會 - 海報論文競賽 - 傑出獎 – 第一名

• 2024   Excellent Poster Prize at the 2024 Chemistry National Meeting. (2024年化學年會優秀壁報論文獎)

• 2024   National Science and Technology Council Postdoctoral Researcher Academic Research Award.

           112年度「國家科學及技術委員會 - 博士後研究人員學術研究獎」

• 2023   Best poster presentation award in the 16th International Symposium on Nanomedicine in Osaka, Japan.

• 2023   Outstanding Award in the 2023 College of Science Research Exhibition. 

           傑出獎 – 2023國立成功大學-理學院研究日-研究成果發表會

• 2023   Postdoctoral Outstanding Award in the Grand Review and Competition for PhD Student and Postdoctoral Research 

           Fellow Research     

           博士後傑出獎 - 112年度國立成功大學Grand Review博士生暨博士後研究學術競賽

• 2017   Best poster presentation award in the 2017 International Symposium on Smart-Sensing Medical Devices and 22nd 

           Symposium of Association for Chemical Sensors in Taiwan.

• 2016   Professor Guan-Liang Chang Memorial Scholarship.
              105年度 中華民國生物醫工程學會 張冠諒教授紀念獎學金 - 博士級

• 2015   Poster presentation award in the 2015 Annual Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and Technology.

• 2015   Oral presentation award in the 2015 International Symposium on Smart-Sensing Technology and 20th Symposium of
              Association for Chemical Sensors in Taiwan.

• 2014   Scholarship of Osaka University for Short Term Study.

Patent

• Chen-Sheng Yeh, Ying-Chi Chen. Gold nanoparticle composition and uses thereof.  Taiwan Patent No. I904960, granted November 11, 2025.

• U.S. Patent Application No. 18/971,436 (pending). Filed in December 2024.

Invited Talks

• 2026   Keynote Speaker, 2026 Annual Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and 7th Global Conference on Biomedical Engineering (GCBME). (Expected Nov. 2026) 

• 2025   Invited Speaker, 8th International Conference on Materials Science & Nanotechnology (ICMSN-2025), Prague, Czech Republic. (June 25–26, 2025) 

Invited Feature Articles

• 2025   Chen, Y.-C., Yeh, C.S. “Letting Cancer Cells Power Down: The ‘Electronic Vacuum Cleaner’ Au@MIL.” 

           NSRRC Newsletter, No. 135, 2026. (Invited Feature & Cover Story; highlighting Nat. Commun. 16:3253, 2025)

Professional Service

• 2026   Invited Judge, 5th Merck Young Scientist Award, Merck Taiwan.

• 2026   Organizing Committee, 2026 Annual Symposium on Biomedical Engineering and 7th Global Conference on Biomedical Engineering (GCBME). (Expected Nov-2026)

• 2014   Session Chair, 2014 Global Conference on Biomedical Engineering (GCBME) & Asia-Pacific Conference on Medical and Biological Engineering (APCMBE).

• 2012   General Affairs Team Lead, 2012 International Symposium on Chemical Environmental Biomedical Technology (isCEBT).

• 2011   Registration Team Support, 2011 WACBE World Congress on Bioengineering & Biomedical Engineering Technology Symposium.

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Selected Recent Publications

1. Chen, Y.C. et al. Redox disruption using electroactive liposome coated gold nanoparticles for cancer therapy. Nature Communications 2025;16(1): 3253.

2. Chen, Y.C. et al. Electroactive membrane fusion-liposome for increased electron transfer to enhance radio-dynamic therapy. Nature Nanotechnology 2023;18:1492–1501.

3. Chen, Y.C. et al. DNA tension assays reveal that force-dependent integrin activation regulates neurite outgrowth in primary cortical neurons. Biomaterials Advances 2023;150:213431.

4. Chen, Y.C. et al. Engineering H2O2 and O2 Self-Supplying Nanoreactor to Conduct Synergistic Chemiexcited Photodynamic and Calcium-Overloaded Therapy in Orthotopic Hepatic Tumors. Advanced Healthcare Materials 2022;11(20):2201613.