Sung-Jan Lin (林頌然)
Title：Distinguished Professor
Telephone：886-2-2732-4580
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Office：Room 622 ,YongLin Biomedical engineering center, NTU
Lab: Lab of Tissue Engineering and Regeneration (Room 630, YongLin Biomedical Engineering Center)
Lab homepage: http://sjlin.cm.ntu.edu.tw/web/home
Education:
1991-1998 ∣ MD, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
2003-2006 ∣ PhD, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
Experience:
Current position
Distinguished Professor and Chairman, Department of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University, 2023/08 ~
Professor, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, 2019/08~ (Joint appointment with NTU)
Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Dermatology, National Taiwan University, 2016/08 ~
Director, Center for Frontier Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, 2021/10~
Director, Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, 2021/10 ~
Deputy Director, Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, 2019/08 ~
Deputy Director, Branch Office of Research and Development, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, 2019/08 ~
Attending Physician, Department of Dermatology, National Taiwan University Hospital, 2003/7 ~
President, Taiwanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (TSID), 2021/5~
Prior employment/position
President, Taiwan Society for Stem Cell Research 2021/10 ~2023/10
Deputy Director, Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University, 2016/08 ~2021/09
Division Director, Division of Training and Development, Department of Medical Research, National Taiwan University Hospital, 2017/08 ~2019/7
Taiwan Bio-Development Foundation (TBF) Chair in Biotechnology, 2014/01 ~2023/12
Associate Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering & Department of Dermatology, National Taiwan University, 2012/08 ~ 2016/07
Visiting Scholar, Lab of Tissue Development and Engineering, Department of Pathology, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, U.S.A. (Dr. Cheng-Ming Chuong), 2010/02 ~ 2012/01
Assistant Professor, Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Department of Dermatology, National Taiwan University, 2007/08 ~ 2012/07
Membership in professional societies
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) (2014 ~)
Society for Investigative Dermatology (SID) (2006 ~)
Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) (2008/09 ~) Taiwanese Society for Investigative Dermatology (TSID) (2006/06 ~) (Board Member 2009/05 ~) Taiwanese Dermatological Association (2003/08~) (Board Member 2018/11 ~)
Formosa Association of Regenerative Medicine (FARM) (2004/02~) (Board Member 2016 ~2018) Taiwanese Dermatological Association
Taiwan Society for Stem Cell Research (Board Member 2017/10 ~)
Taiwanese Society of Developmental Biology (Board Member 2015 ~ 2017, 2019~2023)
Editorial board members
Experimental Dermatology (Associate Editor, 2021/10 ~; Editorial board, 2017/04 ~2021/9), JID Innovations (Associate Editor 2020/10~), Journal of the Formosan Medical Association (Editorial board, 2017/02~), Dermatologica Sinica (Associate Editor 2019/01 ~2022/12; Editorial board, 2014/01 ~ 2018/12)
Honors & Awards:
2002 ∣ Excellent Resident Award, National Taiwan University Hospital
2006 ∣ International Scholarship Grant, 18th World Congress of Dermatology Fund
2007 ∣ Galderma Skin Research Award
2008-2011 ∣ Career Development Grant, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
2009 ∣ Award for Junior Research Investigators in Life Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
2010-2015 ∣ Physician Scientist Award, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
2010 ∣ Ta-You Wu Memorial Award of National Science Council, Taiwan
2010 ∣ Excellent Teaching Award, National Taiwan University
2012 ∣ Basic Research Award, Asia-Pacific La Roche-Posay Foundation
2012 ∣ Ching-Shing Medical Award
2013 ∣ Excellent Teaching Award, National Taiwan University,
2014-2024 ∣ Taiwan Bio-Development Foundation (TBF) Chair in Biotechnology
2014 ∣ Distinguished Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
2014 ∣ Distinguished Research Award, National Taiwan University Hospital
2014 ∣ Dean Chen-Yuan Lee Memorial Medical Award
2017 ∣ Distinguished Professor Award, Far Eastern Y.Z. Hsu Science and Technology Memorial Foundation
2018 ∣ Basic Research Award, Asia-Pacific La Roche-Posay Foundation
2020 ∣ Kenneth K. Wu Chair Professor(伍焜玉院士學術講座), National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
2021 ∣ Distinguished Research Award, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan
Research Highlight:
Regenerative biology and stem cell
Tissue engineering
Hair follicle
Corneal endothelial healing
Pigment and melanocyte
Biomedical optics
Representative publications:
1. Huang KR, Fan SMY*, Tai KY, Lin JD, Chang CF, Yang KC, Lin SJ*. Essential role of macrophages in contact hypersensitivity-induced hair regeneration. Journal of Investigative Dermatology Accepted
2. Hong JB, Wang WH, Hsu YW, Tee SY, Wu YF, Huang WY, Lai SF, Lin SJ*. Hair follicle transit amplifying cells phagocytose dead cells after radiotherapeutic and chemotherapeutic injuries for timely regeneration. Journal of Investigative Dermatology 144:243-251.e2, 2024.
3. Shwartz Y#, Gonzalez-Celeiro M#, Chen CL#, Pasolli HA, Sheu SH, Fan SMY, Shamsi F, Assad S, Lin ETY, Zhang B, Tsai PC, He M, Tseng YH, Lin SJ*, Hsu YC*. Cell types promoting goosebumps form a niche to regulate hair follicle stem cells. Cell 182:578-93, 2020. (# equal contribution)
4. Fan SMY, Chang YT, Chen CL, Wang WH, Pan MK, Chen WP, Huang WY, Xu Z, Huang HE, Chen T, Plikus MV, Chen SK*, Lin SJ*. External light activates hair follicle stem cells through eyes via an ipRGC-SCN-sympathetic neural pathway. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of USA 115: E6880-E6889, 2018.
5. Fan SMY, Tsai CF, Yen CM, Lin MH, Wang WH, Chan CC, Chen CL, Phua KKL, Pan SH, Plikus MV, Yu SL, Chen YJ*, Lin SJ*. Inducing hair follicle neogenesis with secreted proteins enriched in embryonic skin. Biomaterials 167:121-131, 2018.
