Dr. Hsiu-Chuan Wu graduated from Taipei Medical College in 1999. She completed her residency training in the Department of Neurology in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Centre, and became a consultant Neurologist since 2004. In the early years of her career, she developed interests in Neuroscience research. She then studied mitochondrial dysfunction in Parkinson’s disease under Professor Hélène Plun-Favreau and Professor John Hardy in University College London in the UK, and obtained her PhD degree in Molecular Neuroscience in 2015. Dr Wu’s main clinical and academic interests focus on biomarkers, pathogenesis, and genetics in Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer's disease, and oxidative stress following cerebral hypoperfusion. She is currently an Assistant Professor of the Chang Gung University College of Medicine and the Chief of Cerebrovascular Diseases Section in the Department of Neurology in Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Linkou Medical Centre.