Kuo Ping Chiu's Biography

Kuo Ping Chiu, Associate Research Fellow, Genomics Research Centre, Academia Sinica

Kuo Ping Chiu got his PhD in Microbiology from UC Davis in 1991 and did his postdoc at Harvard Medical School on Neurosciences during 1993 - 1996. His research career is tightly associated with biotechnologies. His PhD research focused on developing in situ PCR methods to identify MMTV-infected cells, while his postdoctoral training was related to multiple colorimetric labeling of acetylcholine receptor subunit transcripts. At Bio-Rad, he developed kits for flow cytometry-based antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Later he switched from wetlab to Bioinformatics and worked for GIS on developing paired-end ditag (PED) technology and methods for sequence data analysis. He moved back to Taiwan in 2008 to work for Academia Sinica on developing sequencing-related biotechnologies to facilitate cancer research and also teach at universities. He is currently holding three US patents related to PED technologies and recently published a book entitled “Next-Generation Sequencing and Sequence Data Analysis”.