Yu-Ju Chen
{{Short description|Proteogenomics research scientist}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Yu-Ju Chen
| native_name = 陳玉如
| native_name_lang = zh-Hant
| nationality = Taiwanese
| workplaces = Academia Sinica
| alma_mater = Iowa State University
| thesis_title = Unimolecular dissociation of polyatomic ions by molecular beam photoionization mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation
| thesis_url = https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/150305d9-67e2-414b-a90f-3bb7869365cd
| thesis_year = 1997
| doctoral_advisor = Cheuk-Yiu Ng
| field = proteomics, mass spectrometry
}}
Yu-Ju Chen ({{Lang-zh|c=陳玉如|p=Chén Yùrú}}) is a Taiwanese proteomics research scientist, who leads international projects in proteogenomics.
Education
Yu-Ju Chen received a PhD in physical chemistry at Iowa State University in 1997, under the direction of Cheuk-Yiu Ng. She completed post-doctoral research at Ames Laboratory in 1997, and then at Yuan-Pern Lee's group at National Tsing Hua University in 1999.{{Cite journal |last1=Mernie |first1=Elias Gizaw |last2=Tseng |first2=Mei-Chun |last3=Wu |first3=Wen-Ti |last4=Liu |first4=Tzu-Ming |last5=Chen |first5=Yu-Ju |date=2022 |title=Nanoprobe-based mass spectrometry and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy for rapid phospholipid profiling |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jccs.202100284 |journal=Journal of the Chinese Chemical Society |language=en |volume=69 |issue=1 |pages=94–106 |doi=10.1002/jccs.202100284 |s2cid=238675893 |issn=0009-4536|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Hochlaf |first1=Majdi |last2=Lau |first2=Kai-Chung |last3=Tzeng |first3=Wen-Bih |last4=Mo |first4=Yuxiang |date=2021-09-02 |title=Tribute to Cheuk-Yiu Ng |url=https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06287 |journal=The Journal of Physical Chemistry A |language=en |volume=125 |issue=34 |pages=7353–7355 |doi=10.1021/acs.jpca.1c06287 |bibcode=2021JPCA..125.7353H |s2cid=237389888 |issn=1089-5639|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |title=Unimolecular dissociation of polyatomic ions by molecular beam photoionization mass spectrometry and collision-induced dissociation |url=https://dr.lib.iastate.edu/entities/publication/150305d9-67e2-414b-a90f-3bb7869365cd |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=Iowa State University Digital Repository|date=January 1997 |last1=Chen |first1=Yu-Ju }}
Career
Chen began her career at the Institute of Chemistry of Academia Sinica as assistant research fellow in 1999. She was the Director of the Institute of Chemistry from 2013 to 2019, and is currently a Distinguished Research Fellow.{{Cite web |last=國立臺灣大學化學系 |date=2022-12-21 |title=國立臺灣大學化學系 |url=https://webpageprodvm.ntu.edu.tw/chemistry-en/news_content.aspx?n=97357&s=99485 |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=Department of Chemistry, NTU}}{{Cite journal |last1=Chen |first1=Yu-Ju |last2=Shiea |first2=Jentaie |date=2014 |title=Recent Development of Mass Spectrometric Technologies in Asia and Oceania |url=https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/massspectrometry/3/Special_Issue/3_K0006/_article |journal=Mass Spectrometry |language=en |volume=3 |issue=Special_Issue |pages=K0006 |doi=10.5702/massspectrometry.K0006 |issn=2187-137X |pmc=4571613 |pmid=26819898}} She is also an adjunct professor at National Taiwan University,{{Cite web |last=國立臺灣大學化學系 |date=2022-12-21 |title=國立臺灣大學化學系 |url=https://webpageprodvm.ntu.edu.tw/chemistry-en/news_content.aspx?n=97357&s=99485 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=Department of Chemistry, NTU}} National Chiayi University,{{Cite web |last=應用化學系 |date=2010-08-17 |title=Yu-Ju Chen |url=http://www.ncyu.edu.tw/chem_eng/content.aspx?site_content_sn=7701 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=www.ncyu.edu.tw |language=English}} National Taiwan Ocean University,{{Cite web |title=Adjunct Instructor |url=https://dbb.ntou.edu.tw/p/412-1074-6458.php?Lang=en |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=dbb.ntou.edu.tw}} and National Chung Hsing University.{{Cite web |title=Institute of Molecular Biology Main Faculty |url=https://www.nchu.edu.tw/~mbio/wb_main_faculty13.html |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=National Chung Hsing University}} She conducts research in mass spectrometry-based bioinformatics, in relation to understanding diseases such as cancer.{{Cite web |title=Yu-Ju Chen — ASN Events |url=http://hupo-2019.p.asnevents.com.au/speaker/312373 |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=hupo-2019.p.asnevents.com.au}}{{Cite web |last=自由時報電子報 |date=2022-03-14 |title=獨家》重大突破！癌細胞蛋白體分析「一站式」完成 - 生活 |url=https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/3858513 |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=自由時報電子報 |language=zh-Hant-TW}}{{Cite journal |last1=Han |first1=Chia-Li |last2=Chien |first2=Chih-Wei |last3=Chen |first3=Wen-Cheng |last4=Chen |first4=Yet-Ran |last5=Wu |first5=Chien-Peng |last6=Li |first6=Hung |last7=Chen |first7=Yu-Ju |date=2008-10-01 |title=A Multiplexed Quantitative Strategy for Membrane Proteomics: Opportunities for Mining Therapeutic Targets for Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease |url=https://www.mcponline.org/article/S1535-9476(20)31281-0/abstract |journal=Molecular & Cellular Proteomics |language=English |volume=7 |issue=10 |pages=1983–1997 |doi=10.1074/mcp.M800068-MCP200 |issn=1535-9476 |pmid=18490355|s2cid=18940889 |doi-access=free }}{{Cite journal |last1=Chien |first1=Chih-Wei |last2=Lo |first2=Yu-Shu |last3=Wu |first3=Hsin-Yi |last4=Hsuan |first4=Yogi |last5=Lin |first5=Chi-Kang |last6=Chen |first6=Yu-Ju |last7=Lin |first7=Willie |last8=Han |first8=Chia-Li |date=2020 |title=Transcriptomic and Proteomic Profiling of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cell Derived from Umbilical Cord in the Study of Preterm Birth |url=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/prca.201900024 |journal= Proteomics – Clinical Applications|language=en |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=1900024 |doi=10.1002/prca.201900024 |pmid=31520560 |s2cid=202572442 |issn=1862-8346|url-access=subscription }}
Since 2016, Chen has participated in the US Cancer Moonshot Initiative, providing proteogenomics expertise as representative of Academia Sinica.{{Cite web |title=Academia Sinica to join in US-led cancer project |url=http://www.chang-gung.com/en/m/news-1.aspx?type=Photo&id=2016101216520361660&mid=120&bid=3 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=www.chang-gung.com}}{{Cite web |date=2016-09-24 |title=Academia Sinica to join in US-led cancer project - Taipei Times |url=https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2016/09/24/2003655836 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=www.taipeitimes.com}}{{Cite web |title=「全球第一次完整剖析東亞肺癌成因！」陳玉如與臺美癌症登月計畫 |url=https://pansci.asia/archives/203515 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=PanSci 泛科學 |language=zh-TW}} She is the project investigator for the Taiwan Cancer Moonshot Project, which analyzes multiomic data related to gastric cancer.{{Cite journal |title=Taiwan Cancer Moonshot Project |url=https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05248763 |access-date=2023-01-14 |website=NIH U.S. National Library of Medicine ClinicalTrials.gov|date=18 July 2022 }} She participates in the Chromosome-centric Human Proteome Project, and is the group lead of chromosome 4.{{Cite web |title=HUPO - C-HPP |url=https://hupo.org/C-HPP |access-date=2023-01-15 |website=hupo.org |language=en}}
Chen served as president for the Human Proteome Organization (2021-2022),{{Cite web |title=HUPO - Farewell from Past President Yu-Ju Chen |url=https://hupo.org/News/13050664 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=hupo.org}} the Taiwan Proteomics Society,{{Cite web |title=HUPO - HUPO B/D-HPP Interview with HUPO President Yu-Ju Chen, PhD |url=https://hupo.org/HPP-News/10235747 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=hupo.org}} and the Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry (2012-2015).{{Cite web |title=TSMS灣質譜學會 |url=http://2014.tsms.org.tw/ |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=2014.tsms.org.tw}} She has been a council member of the Asia Oceania Human Proteome Organization since 2019.{{Cite web |title=AOHUPO - Asia Oceania Human Proteome Organisation |url=https://www.aohupo.org/council.php |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=www.aohupo.org}} She current serves as executive director of the Taiwan Proteomics Society (2021-2023),{{Cite web |date=2018-02-10 |title=學會組織 |url=https://www.proteomics.org.tw/%e5%ad%b8%e6%9c%83%e4%bb%8b%e7%b4%b9/%e5%ad%b8%e6%9c%83%e7%b5%84%e7%b9%94/ |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=台灣蛋白體學會 |language=zh-TW}} and the Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry.{{Cite web |title=TSMS Organization |url=http://www.tsms.org.tw/index.asp?url=192&cid=3 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry}} She served on editorial boards of European Journal of Mass Spectrometry, Journal of Proteome Research, and Frontiers in Analytical Chemistry, and currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board of Proteomics.{{Cite web |title=Editorial Board |url=https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/16159861/homepage/2120_edbd.html |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Proteomics}}
Awards
- 2023 Tung-Ho Outstanding Research Award, THS Foundation
- 2023 16th Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Award, Wu Chien Shiung Education Foundation & L'ORÉAL Taiwan{{Cite web |title=Two Academia Sinica Research Fellows Received the 2023 Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Awards {{!}} Academia Sinica Newsletter |url=https://newsletter.sinica.edu.tw/en/11393/ |access-date=2024-08-28 |website=newsletter.sinica.edu.tw}}
- 2022 Outstanding Research Award, National Science and Technology Council
- 2022 Outstanding Research Award, National Science and Technology Council
- 2021 National Innovation Award
- 2020 Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Medal{{Cite web |title=TSMS Lists of Award Winners |url=http://www.tsms.org.tw/index.asp?url=192&cid=22 |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry}}
- 2011 Taiwan Society for Mass Spectrometry Outstanding Scholar Award
- 2007 Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Distinguished Young Chemists Award{{Cite web |title=Yu-Ju Chen Biography |url=https://www.vibconferences.be/speaker/yu-ju-chen |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=VIB Conferences}}
- 2006 Chinese Chemical Society Outstanding Young Investigator Award
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