Megan Yi-Ping Ho,
Assistant Professor
Dr. Megan Yi-Ping Ho received her B.S. and M.S. in Power Mechanical Engineering from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan in 2000 and 2002, respectively. She then spent a year as a R&D engineer in Walsin-Lihwa MEMS Business Unit, Taiwan. In 2008, she received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. After her postdoctoral training with Duke University, she joined the Interdisciplinary Nanoscience Center (iNANO) and the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics in Aarhus University, Denmark, as an Assistant Professor in 2012. She is also a co-founder of a start-up company, Zymonostics, situated in Demark. Her research focuses on integrating nanophotonics, novel molecular constructs and microfluidics for detecting nucleic acids in the context of disease diagnostics and gene therapy. She has received 15 academic honors and awards, published 39 peer-reviewed journal articles, 61 peer-reviewed proceedings and conference abstracts, 2 granted patents and 4 invention disclosures. The results that she presented have been recognized internationally and received prestigious awards from American Society of Gene Therapy and Controlled Release Society.
Megan joined the Department of Electronic Engineering (Division of Biomedical Engineering) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in August 2016.
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