Curriculum Vitae I. Basic information and Education 姓 名 陳韋弘 Name (in Print) Chen, Wei-Hong ID No. (身份証或護照 字號) F124217174 Date of Birth 01/02/1978 Education / Training(Begin with baccalaureate or other initial professional education, such as nursing, and include postdoctoral training.) Institution and location Degree Tatung University Taipei Medical University Taipei Medical University, Graduate Institue of Medical Sciences Year (s) Field of study B.S. 1998~2001 Bioengineering M.S. 2001~2003 Biomedical Materials Ph.D candidate 2003~present Basic science II. Experimental Skills Cartilage tissue engineering Intervertebrate disc tissue engineering Cell immortalization and characterization Isolation and differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells Primary cultures of human cells Growth factor purification Collagen purification Immunocytostaining RT-PCR Western blotting Real-time PCR Flow cytometry Gene construction Animal experiments III. Thesis Cartilage Regeneration System : Establiahment and Characterization of Immortalized Human Articular Chondrocytes (master degree) A Mechanistic Study of Chondrogenesis in Human Nucleus Pulposus and Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Their Applications in Tissue Engineering (PhD) IV. Representative publication list in last five years. 1. Wei-Hong Chen, Wen-Cheng Lo, Jie-Jen Lee, Ching-Hua Su, Che-Tong Lin, Hen-Yu Liu, Tsou-Wen Lin, Wei-Chao Lin, Te-Yang Huang, Win-Ping Deng*. Tissue-engineered intervertebral disc and chondrogenesis using human nucleus pulposus regulated through TGF-β1 in platelet-rich plasma. The Journal of Cellular Physiology 2006 Sep 5;209(3):744-754 (SCI) 2. Chen, W.H., Lai, W.F., Deng, W.P.*, Yang, W.K., Lo, W.C., Wu, C.C., Yang, D.M., Lai, M.T., Lin,C.T., Lin, T.W., Yang, C.B.. Tissue engineered cartilage using human articular chondrocytes immortalized by HPV-16 E6 and E7 genes. Journal of Biomedical Material Research A 2006 Mar 1;76(3):512-20 (SCI) 3. Chen, C.W., Tsai, Y.H., Deng, W.P., Shih, S.N., Fang, C.L., Burch, J.G., Chen, W.H. Lai, W.F. Type I and type II collagen regulation of chondrogenic differentiation in mesenchymal progenitor cells. J Orthop Res. 2005 Mar;23(2):446-53 (SCI) 4. *Shih-Chieh Hung, Win-Ping Deng*, Wen K.Yang, Ren-Shyan Liu, Chien-Chih Lee, Tzu-Chi Su, Rue-Jen Lin, Den-Mei Yang, Chi-Mei Chang, Wei-Hong Chen, Hon-Jian Wei, and Juri C.Gelovani. Mesenchymal stem cell targeting of microscopic tumors and tumor stroma development monitored by noninvasive in vivo positron emission tomography imaging. Clinical Cancer Research 2005 Nov 1;11(21):7749-56 (SCI) 5. Wen-Cheng Lo, Chung-Huei Hsu, Alexander T.H Wu, Liang-Yo Yang, Wei-Hong Chen, Hon-Jian Wei, Wen-Fu Lai, Chih-Hsiung Wu, Juri G. Gelovani and Win-Ping Deng. A Novel Cell-Based Therapy for Contusion Spinal Cord Injury Using GDNF-Delivering NIH3T3 Cells with Dual Reporter Genes Monitored by Molecular Imaging. J Nucl Med. 2008 (in press) 6. WEI-HONG CHEN, CHIA-CHE WU, WEN-CHENG LO, MING-TANG LAI, CHE-TONG LIN, CHING-HUA SU, SHIH-CHIEH HUNG, WIN-PING DENG * In Vitro Stage-specific Chondrogenesis of Mesenchymal Stem Cells Committed to Chondrocytes. Stem Cells (Under review)