Pan-Chyr Yang, MD, PhD, is a Professor of the Department of Internal Medicine, and the current President of National Taiwan University.
His major research interests are pulmonary and critical care medicine, lung cancer genomics, microarray gene expression technology, translational research and personalized cancer therapy. His research group has discovered novel genes and pathways that link to lung cancer pathogenesis and progression. They identified specific gene expression and microRNA signatures, which can assist in predicting the treatment’s outcome and may be beneficial for the personalized therapy of lung cancer patients. His research teams help to establish the national reference laboratory for stratified medicine and national center of excellence for clinical trial as well as the nation-wide clinical trial consortium to facilitate translational research activities in Taiwan. As a result of their efforts, between 2009 and 2013 the five-year survival rate from lung cancer has been improved from 16 to 32 percent.
Pan-Chyr Yang is awarded as member of the Academia Sinica since 2006 for his contributions in promoting translational research in lung cancer.
His major research interests are pulmonary and critical care medicine, lung cancer genomics, microarray gene expression technology, translational research and personalized cancer therapy. His research group has discovered novel genes and pathways that link to lung cancer pathogenesis and progression. They identified specific gene expression and microRNA signatures, which can assist in predicting the treatment’s outcome and may be beneficial for the personalized therapy of lung cancer patients. His research teams help to establish the national reference laboratory for stratified medicine and national center of excellence for clinical trial as well as the nation-wide clinical trial consortium to facilitate translational research activities in Taiwan. As a result of their efforts, between 2009 and 2013 the five-year survival rate from lung cancer has been improved from 16 to 32 percent.
Pan-Chyr Yang is awarded as member of the Academia Sinica since 2006 for his contributions in promoting translational research in lung cancer.
Welcome Message by President Yang
A very warm welcome to the NTU-UIUC 2014 Global Issues Forum “Smart Cities, Healthy Cities”.
It is a great pleasure to be hosting this first edition of Global Issues events together with a partner as special as UIUC. For many years, the two institutions have been developing robust links across a variety of initiatives. Today, the NTU-UIUC Forum celebrates our pre-existing collaborations. With the longer term in mind, it also represents a new strategic move to address global issues using a constructive time span of at least three events in three years, in both institutions.
The 2014 inaugural program involves an attractive range of challenges and solutions which NTU and UIUC researchers should explore together. Among the participants is a rich melting pot of diverse backgrounds and ideas.
Through the NTU-UIUC 2014 Global Issues Forum, we want to rise to grand challenges. It promises to cut across boundaries. As the world becomes more and more urbanized, cities try to continually improve their environments. The United States and Taiwan have among the most urbanized populations in the world. Major cities like Chicago and Taipei become objects of comprehensive analysis for increased performance of the social and economic functions of life.
“Smart Cities, Healthy Cities” is about grand challenges, and UIUC and NTU are in an excellent position to help overcome them. Every day, NTU and UIUC embrace their roles in developing creative and dynamic leaders for a better tomorrow. We want to continue to foster the kind of talents that are capable, in a rapidly changing world, of excelling in the most versatile environments. Both the research and labor markets have increasing needs for the outcomes of inter-disciplinary research.
The fusion of diverse areas of specialization can often generate a real creative force. This fusion is a major catalyst of leading-edge innovation. Through the Global Issues Forum, we have the potential of changing how we live and work.
On behalf of National Taiwan University, I look forward to working with everyone involved today, to make sure we can build international solutions together, and impact the way our research drives and secures the future of individuals, of communities.
It is a great pleasure to be hosting this first edition of Global Issues events together with a partner as special as UIUC. For many years, the two institutions have been developing robust links across a variety of initiatives. Today, the NTU-UIUC Forum celebrates our pre-existing collaborations. With the longer term in mind, it also represents a new strategic move to address global issues using a constructive time span of at least three events in three years, in both institutions.
The 2014 inaugural program involves an attractive range of challenges and solutions which NTU and UIUC researchers should explore together. Among the participants is a rich melting pot of diverse backgrounds and ideas.
Through the NTU-UIUC 2014 Global Issues Forum, we want to rise to grand challenges. It promises to cut across boundaries. As the world becomes more and more urbanized, cities try to continually improve their environments. The United States and Taiwan have among the most urbanized populations in the world. Major cities like Chicago and Taipei become objects of comprehensive analysis for increased performance of the social and economic functions of life.
“Smart Cities, Healthy Cities” is about grand challenges, and UIUC and NTU are in an excellent position to help overcome them. Every day, NTU and UIUC embrace their roles in developing creative and dynamic leaders for a better tomorrow. We want to continue to foster the kind of talents that are capable, in a rapidly changing world, of excelling in the most versatile environments. Both the research and labor markets have increasing needs for the outcomes of inter-disciplinary research.
The fusion of diverse areas of specialization can often generate a real creative force. This fusion is a major catalyst of leading-edge innovation. Through the Global Issues Forum, we have the potential of changing how we live and work.
On behalf of National Taiwan University, I look forward to working with everyone involved today, to make sure we can build international solutions together, and impact the way our research drives and secures the future of individuals, of communities.
Pan-Chyr Yang, MD, PhD
President
National Taiwan University
President
National Taiwan University