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○ TOS Young Investigator Paper Award for Cancer Research   

Prior Recipients

2024Recipient

Tzu-Yu Lai, M.D. (賴姿妤)

Attending physician, Department of Heavy Particles & Radiation Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (2018/8~)
Lecturer, School of Medicine, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan (2018/2~)

Lecturer, Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2018/7~)      
 

❖ Education:
    Doctor of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2004/9~2011/6)
    PhD candidate, Institute of Public Health, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taipei, Taiwan (2022/6~)

❖ Training and Experiences:
    Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (2012/8~2012/12)
    Resident, Department of Heavy Particles & Radiation Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (2013/1~2017/10)
    Research Fellow, Department of Heavy Particles & Radiation Oncology, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan (2017/11~2018/7)
    
❖ Award
    
Best Paper Award, Taiwan Breast Cancer Foundation, 2023
    Best Paper Award in Cancer Medicine, Journal of the Chinese Medical Association, 2017


❖ Publications:
    Original Article
    1. Tzu-Yu Lai, Yu-Wen Hu, Ti-Hao Wang, Jui-Pin Chen, Cheng-Ying Shiau, Pin-I Huang, I-Chun Lai, Ling-Ming Tseng, Nicole Huang, Chia-Jen Liu. Association of Radiation
        Dose to Cardiac Substructures with Major Ischaemic Events Following Breast Cancer Radiotherapy. European Heart Journal, 2023 Dec 1;44(45):4796-4807. (SCI, IF: 39.3;
        R/C: 2/143)
    2. Yuan-Hung Wu, Yu-Mei Kang, Yu-Wen Hu, Keng-Li Lan, Sang-Hue Yen, Tzu-Yu Lai, Tien-Li Lan, Yuh-Min Chen, Chao-Hua Chiu, Yung-Hung Luo, Heng-Sheng Chao,
       Chi-Lu Chiang, Tsu-Hui Shiao, Chao-Neng Yang, Wen-Hu Hsu, Yu-Chung Wu, Han-Shui Hsu, Jung-Jyh Hung, Chien-Sheng Huang, Po-Kuei Hsu, Yi-Wei Chen. Old age
       and EGFR mutation status in inoperable early-stage non-small cell lung cancer patients receiving stereotactic ablative radiotherapy: A single institute experience of 71
       patients in Taiwan. Thoracic Cancer, 2023 Mar;14(7):654-661. doi: 10.1111/1759-7714.14786; (SCI, IF: 2.9; R/C: 163/241)
   3. Chen-Hua Lin, Tzu-Yu Lai, Yu-Jen Chen, Shun-Ku Lin. Social distance towards schizophrenia in health professionals. Asia Pac Psychiatry, 2022 Sep; 14(3):e12506. doi:
       10.1111/appy.12506. (SCI, IF: 3.5; R/C: 60/144)
   4. Tzu-Yu Lai, Chiu-Mei Yeh, Yu-Wen Hu, Chia-Jen Liu. Hospital volume and physician volume in association with survival in patients with nasopharyngeal cancer after
       radiation therapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology, 2020 Oct;151:190-191. (SCI, IF: 6.2; R/C: 15/133)
   5. Tzu-Yu Lai, Ti-Hao Wang, Chia-Jen Liu, Tze-Fan Chao, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Yu-Wen Hu. Risk factors for osteonecrosis of the jaw in oral cancer patients after surgery and
       eventual adjuvant treatment: The potential role of chemotherapy. Radiotherapy and Oncology. 2017 Jun;123(3):406-411. (SCI, IF: 4.328; R/C: 13/126)
   6. Tzu-Yu Lai, Yu-Wen Hu, Yu-Ming Liu, Yi-Wei Chen, Cheng-Ying Shiau, Pen-Yuan Chu, Shyh-Kuan Tai, Wen-Liang Lo, Cheng-Hsien Wu, Ling-Wei Wang. The pattern
       of failure and predictors of locoregional control in lateralized buccogingival cancer after postoperative radiation therapy. Journal of the Chinese Medical Association,
       2017. Sep;80(9):569-574. (SCI, IF: 1.252. R/C: 82/154)
   7. Yuan-Hung Wu, Wan-Chin Yang, Yu-Wen Hu, Chuen-Mei Hsieh, Kai-Lin Yang, I-Chun Lai, Chen-Xiong Hsu, Ti-Hao Wang, Tzu-Yu Lai, Kuan-Ting Chen, Yu-Mei Kang,
       Yu-Ming Liu. Definitive Radiotherapy for Older Patients with Prostate Cancer: Experience of a Medical Center in Taiwan. Scientific Report, 2017 Oct 24;7(1):13880.
       (SCI, IF: 4.259, R/C: 10/64)
   8. Tzu-Yu Lai, Tze-Fan Chao, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Yu-Ming Liu, Yu-Wen Hu. The risk of cancer in patients with keloid and the association with radiotherapy. Therapeutic
       Radiology and Oncology 2017; 24(4): 279-291 (non-SCI)
   9. Yuan-Hung Wu, Yu-Wen Hu, Chuen-Mei Hsieh, Kai-Lin Yang, I-Chun Lai, Chen-Xiong Hsu, Ti-Hao Wang, Tzu-Yu Lai, Kuan-Ting Chen, Cheng-Ying Shiau, Ling-Wei
       Wang, Yu- Ming Liu. Preliminary Outcome of Definitive Radical Radiotherapy for Adenocarcinoma of Prostate in an Era of Intensity-Modulated Radiotherapy:
       Experience of 564 Patients in a Medical Center in Taiwan. Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology 21:3 2014.09 155-174 (non-SCI)


Letter
  1. Tzu-Yu Lai, Yu-Wen Hu. Neoadjuvant Therapy in Resectable Pancreatic Cancer: Immortal Time Bias and Its Correction. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2017 May; 35(14),
     1623. (SCI, IF: 24.008, R/C: 5/217)


Poster
  1. Risk factors for osteonecrosis of jaw in oral cancer patients: a nation-wide population-based study (2015 ASTRO poster); International Journal of Radiation Oncology,
      Biology, Physics. Volume 93, Issue 3, Supplement, November 2015, Pages E343
  2. Tzu-Yu Lai et al. The pattern of failure and predictors of locoregional control in lateralized oral cancer after postoperative radiation therapy. 20th TJCC poster, 2015
  3. Tzu-Yu Lai et al. Major Ischemic Heart Events for Patients with Breast Cancer After Radiotherapy: Exploring the Optimum Dose-volume Parameter of Cardiac Substructures
      for Risk Prediction. 28th TJCC poster, 2023

 

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2024Recipient

Yung-Yeh Su,M.D.,Ph.D.(蘇勇曄)


Assistant Investigator and Attending Physician, National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institute, Tainan, Taiwan
 

❖ Education
    
Sep. 2005 – May 2012 M.D., School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University
    
Aug. 2018 – Dec. 2023 Ph.D., Institute of Clinical Medicine, National Cheng Kung University


❖ Current position
    
Jan. 2023 – present Assistant Investigator and Attending Physician, National Institute of Cancer Research,
                        National Health Research Institute, Tainan, Taiwan
    
Oct. 2022 – present Adjunct Attending physician, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital
                        and Center for Cancer Research, Kaohsiung Medical University,Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    
Sep. 2019 – present Adjunct Attending physician, Department of Oncology, National Cheng Kung University Hospital,
                        Tainan, Taiwan


❖ Professional & Experiences
    
Apr. 2020 – Dec. 2022 Attending physician, National Institute of Cancer Research, National Health Research Institute, Tainan, Taiwan
    
Aug. 2017 – Aug. 2019 Fellow, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
    
Sep. 2015 – Jul. 2017 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan
    
Aug. 2014 – Jul. 2015 Resident, Department of Internal Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung, Taiwan


❖ Honors & Awards
    
2024 Young Investigator Award, Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO)
    
2023 Best Oral Presentation Award and Travel Award, Asian Oncology Society (AOS)
    
2023 Best Poster Award (特優), Taiwan Joint Cancer Conference (TJCC)
    
2023 Young Investigator Award, Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO)
    
2023 Best Presentation and Discussion Award, JSMO - Rising Stars in Asia Workshop
    
2022 Best Poster Award 2nd Prize (優等), Taiwan Joint Cancer Conference (TJCC)
    
2022 Young Investigator Award, Japanese Society of Medical Oncology (JSMO)

 

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2023Recipient

Rodney Cheng-En Hsieh, M.D., Ph.D. (謝承恩)


Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou
 

❖ Current Position 
    Assistant Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taiwan


❖ Education
     Doctor of Philosophy, Cancer Biology and Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center UTHealth Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston,
     TX, USA

     Doctor of Medicine, School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
   

❖ Professional & Experiences 
    
Assistant Professor, Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taiwan
    Visiting scientist, Experimental Radiation Oncology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, TX, USA
    Attending Physician, Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taiwan
    Residency, Radiation Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Taiwan
    Residency, Internal Medicine, Taipei City Hospital, Taiwan
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2023Recipient

Wen-Chi Yang,MD(楊文綺)

Department of Radiation Oncology, National Taiwan University Cancer Center
 

Current position:
January, 2023-present
Attending physician, Department of Radiation Oncology, National Taiwan University Cancer Center

Education:
September, 2005-June, 2012
M.D. Doctor of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan, Taiwan
September, 2018-present
PhD program, Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine

Training and Experiences:
July, 2011-June, 2012
Intern physician, Chang Gun Memorial Hospital, Linkou branch, Taoyuan, Taiwan
July, 2012-June, 2013
Post-Graduate Year resident physician, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
July, 2013-June, 2017
Resident physician, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital
July, 2017-July, 2019
Attending physician, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital, Yunlin branch
August, 2019-January, 2023
Attending physician, Division of Radiation Oncology, Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital

 
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2022Recipient

Po-Ming Chow,M.D., Ph.D.(周博敏)


Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital
 

❖ Current Position 
    Attending Physician, Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital
    Assistant Professor, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University

❖ Education
    Bachelor of Medicine, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
    Ph.D., Graduate Institute of Toxicology, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University
   
❖ Professional & Experiences 
    Resident, Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital
    Fellow, Department of Urology, National Taiwan University Hospital
    Trainee, European Urology Residents Education Programme
    Robotic Surgery, Clinique Saint-Augustin, Bordeaux, France
    Robotic Surgery, Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain
    Laparoscopic and reconstructive surgery, La Paz University Hospital , Madrid, Spain

❖ Awards and Honours
   Delegate to Japanese Urological Association annual meeting, (2015)
   Delegate to Urological Association of Asia Youth Section Fellowship (2016)
   Delegate to European Association of Urology academic exchange programme (2019)
   Best Journal Article Award (Taiwan Urological Association, 2020)

   Best Journal Article Award (Taiwan Urological Association, 2021)

 
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2021Recipient

Si-Han Wu, Assistant Professor (吳思翰)


Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, Taipei Medical University

❖ Education & Training Background:                                                             ⎢ View full profile ⎢
2007-2013 Chemistry, Doctor of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2005-2007 Chemistry, Master of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2001-2005 Chemistry, Bachelor of Science, Fu Jen Catholic University, Hsinchuang, Taiwan

❖ Emplyment History:
2015-present Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Nanomedicine and Medical Engineering, Taipei Medical University
2015/11-2016/06 Visiting Scholar, Mork Family Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern 
California
2015/01-2015/08 Postdoctoral Fellow, Research Center for Applied Sciences, Academia Sinica
2014/03-2014/12 Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
2009/07-2009/11 Visiting Student Program, Department of Radiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. 
 
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2020Recipient

Chia-Chi Hsu, Ph.D. (許家齊)

Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University

❖ Education:                                                                                        ⎢ View full profile ⎢
2009-2015 Ph.D., Department and Institute of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University
2007-2009 M.S., Institute of Biochemistry and Biotechnology, College of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University

❖ Interest and Specialty:
1. Basic research
2. Translational cancer research
3. Mechanism of drug resistance in cancer treatment
4. Cancer metabolism

❖ Academia Appointments:
Post-doctoral fellow-
2018- Graduate Institute of Oncology, National Taiwan University
2017-2018 National Taiwan University Cancer Center
2016-2017 Department of Oncology, National Taiwan University Hospital

 
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2020Recipient

Jie Lee, M.D., Ph.D. (李杰)

Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College
Department of Radiation Oncology, MacKay Memorial Hospital

❖ Education:                                                                                        ⎢ View full profile ⎢
2002-2009 M.D. Department of Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University
2016-2019 Ph.D. Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University

❖ Employment Record:
2016- : Attending Physician, Department of Radiation Oncology, MacKay Memorial Hospital
2020- : Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College

❖ Professional Affiliations:
1. The Taiwanese Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (TASTRO)
2. American Society for Therapeutic Radiology and Oncology (ASTRO)
3. European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO)
4. Society on Sarcopenia, Cachexia and Wasting Disorders (SCWD)
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