News & Award
Congratulations to IBC PIs who have secured funding from AS granting programs
2020-11-06

A number of IBC PIs have secured support through the most recent AS intramural competition. The funding will start in January 2021.  These include.

Associate Research Fellow Chi-Guang Yao, who received a Career Development Award for a project titled “Molecular control of synaptic transmission in health and disease”

Assistant Research Fellow Kuen-Phon Wu, who received a Career Development Award for a project titled “Structural mechanism of antiviral defense by post-translational ubiquitination and ISGylation”

Associate Research Fellow Guang-Chao Chen, who secured a Thematic Program Grant to support a project titled: “Deciphering the molecular regulation of autophagy in gut homeostasis and host defense”. Other PIs on this project include: Li-Chung Hsu (NTU, Institute of Molecular Medicine) and Cheng-Yuan Kao (NHRI, Immunology Research Center).

Associate Research Fellow Takashi Angata, who was awarded a Major Disease Grand Challenge Grant to support a project titled: “Deciphering the molecular basis and functional roles of glycan-based immune checkpoints in neurodegenerative diseases.”  Other project PIs are Yi-Juang Chern (IBMS) Kuo-I Lin (GRC), Chun-Hung Lin (IBC), and Hung-Chih Kuo (ICOB);

Distinguished Research Fellow Todd Lowary, who together with Associate Research Fellow Guang-Chao Chen and Research Fellows Chun-Hung Lin and Tzu-Ching Meng from IBC, received an Institutional Grand Challenge Grant for a project titled: Glycoscience on the Inside: Unravelling the Role of Intracellular Glycans and Glycan Binding Proteins.