Professor Chia‐Ching (Josh) Wu’s Biographical Summary Dr. Chia‐Ching (Josh) Wu was born in 1976 in Taiwan, where he obtained his degrees at the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU, Taiwan) (B.S., M.S., and Ph.D.). In his PhD study (2000~2005), he received scholarship for overseas training at Dr. Shu Chien’s lab in the Department of Bioengineering at UC San Diego (UCSD, USA) (2003~2005). During 2005‐2006, he was assigned as a biomedical engineering officer for military service at the Tri‐Service General Hospital. After that, he was trained for a two‐year postdoctoral fellowship in President K. K. Wu’s lab at National Health Research Institute (NHRI, Taiwan) (2006~2008). In 2008, Dr. Wu was recruited as Assistant Professor at the Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy in NCKU and also been appointed as a joint professor at the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Wu was promoted as an Associated Professor in 2012. He was the visiting professor for Peking University (2009) and University of Hong Kong (2014). Currently, Dr. Wu serves the coordinator for translational group in PhD
program (Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, NCKU) and vice director in the International Research Center for Wound Regeneration and Repair (iWRR, NCKU). Dr. Wu plays active roles in both Cell Biology Society and Biomedical Engineering Society. He was the Taiwan ambassador in American Society of Cell Biology (ASCB, 2011‐
2013). He also appointed as the Head of General Affairs Section in Taiwanese Society of Biomedical Engineers (TSBME, 2011~current). Dr. Wu received several awards for Outstanding Research Award in UCSD Bioengineering Symposium (2004), Young Investigator Award in 2nd Asia‐Pacific Conference on Biomechanics (2005), Best Poster Award in 3rd Australian Health & Medical Research Congress (2006), Best Poster Award in 17th Chinese Society of Cell Biology Conference (2008), Young Investigator Award in 3rd Scientific Meeting of the Asian Society for Vascular Biology (2008), Young Scholar Award for Taiwanese Society of Biomechanics (2008), Outstanding teaching award in NCKU (2012). Prof. Josh Wu’s research interests are focusing on mechanobiology‐assisted tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. Cell and tissue remodeling are involved in human homeostasis, pathological mechanism of disease, cancer development, and stem cell regeneration. He previously established a system to provide non‐invasive quantitatively external forces to manipulate cell with a wide range of force scale (from pico‐Newton to nano‐Newton) and to monitor the cellular/subcellular remodeling processes with a high‐
resolution image acquisition system in his PhD study. He also introduced the first study to apply mechanical force in micropatterned cellular system for investigating the endothelial cell apoptosis/rescue mechanisms under anisotropic shear stress (Wu et al., PNAS, 2007). Dr. Wu aims to develop his research career by tightly linkage between basic medicine and novel bioengineering technologies. He is exploring new research fields with the close connection of bioengineering, anatomy, and cell biology. In stem cell researches, Dr. Wu’s study provides the information that biomechanical factors together with biochemical factors have synergistic effect on stem cell differentiation (Wu et al, J Biomechanics, 2008). Currently, he is interested in cell differentiation‐interaction microenvironment for adipose‐
derived stem cells and the potential therapeutic approaches for cell‐based therapy. He has published 26 SCI papers in outstanding journals, such as Tissue Engineering, Circulation Research, Stroke, and Biomaterials.