Prof. Dr. Pin Ju Chueh

Dr. Pin Ju Chueh currently works as a Professor at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences and is Deputy Director at the Department of Post-Baccalaureate Medicine at the National Chung Hsing University in Taiwan. She obtained her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in the Department of Chemistry at the National Chung Hsing University. Then she continued her Ph.D. and Postdoctoral fellowship at Purdue University. She holds experience as an Assistant Professor at Chung Shan Medical University and was recruited to the National Chung Hsing University in 2005. In 2009, she was promoted to Associate Professor and Professor in 2013. Her laboratory research areas are: 1. Using cell-based models and animal experiments to explore the role of tNOX tumor protein in cancer. 2. Understanding the regulatory mechanisms underlying the tNOX-NAD+-SIRT1 axis-modulated cellular functions, such as cell death, cell movement, cell cycle progression, and cancer stemness. 3. Studying cytotoxicity/genotoxicity induced by nanomaterials and emerging chemicals.