Ih-Jen Su

National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan

Biography

Dr. Su received his MD degree from National Taiwan University Medical School in 1976, and PhD degree in Pathology in 1987. His major research interest is virus and virus-associated human cancers. He was the pioneer investigator in EBV-associated T cell lymphoma, and was appointed as the member of International Lymphoma Study Group ( 1996-2008 ) for WHO lymphoma classification. During the SARS period, he served as the Director General of Taiwan CDC and successfully controlled SARS. In 2011-2013, he was appointed as the Director of National Institutes of Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology, NHRI to develop vaccines for EV71, H7N9, and BCG. In the past decade, he become interested in HBV carcinogenesis andidentified pre-S2 mutants as the new viral oncoproteins, and ground glass hepatocytes as pre-neoplastic lesions. He studied the cancer metabolomics and started to apply these biomarkers, especially mTOR and c-myc signals, for chemoprevention of high risk chronic HBV carriers. He published a total of around 300 papers, many of which in the prestigious journals like Lancet, Blood, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Hepatology, etc. His many studies have been translated into clinical application and industry development.