![]() Dr. KuoYuan Hwa
Associate Professor, Dept. of Molecular Science
Director, Center for Biomedical Industry National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan
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| Dr. Hwa is the director of the Center for Biomedical Industries and an associate professor at the National Taipei University of Technology. She is also an adjunct Professor at the Augusta University, Georgia, USA. She graduated and received her Ph. D. from the School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University at the age of 29. At Professor Paul T. Englund’s lab of JHU, Dr. Hwa isolated N-linked glycosylation mutants of Trypanosoma brucei, the first characterized genetic mutants of the parasites. The work was orally presented at the Gordon conference for glycobiology. After completed her post-doc training at Academia Sinica, Dr. Hwa had joined the Cathay Medical Research Institute as the director for the laboratory of human genetics, developing a clinical technology for prenatal screening. |