Research Team
Quintessence
Postdoc. Fellow
Tzu-Hsuan Chang, Ph.D.
Hometown: Taiwan
Research interest:
Cytokine and innate immune cells guided T cell exhaustion
Research interest: Immunometabolic regulations in dendritic cells and memory T cells
Jaeoh Park, Ph.D.
Hometown: Korea
Research interest:
Hepatocellular carcinoma and myeloid cell biology
Kung-Chi Kao, Ph.D.
Hometown: Taiwan
Research interest: Metabolic adaptation and targeting in regulatory T cells
Ana Belen Plata,
Ph.D.
Hometown: Spain
Research interest:
Lipid signaling and diet-instructed T cell differentiation
Pei-Chun Hseuh, Ph.D.
Hometown: Taiwan
Research interest:
T cell metabolism and meta-epigenetics
Janusz von Renesse, MD/Ph.D.
Hometown: Germany
Research interest:
NASH and tissue-resident macrophages
Limei Wang, Ph.D.
Hometown: China
Ph.D. Student
Jie Ting Low, MS
Hometown: Malaysia
Research interest:
Tumor metastasis and Neutrophils
Karina Hajdu, MS
Hometown: Brazil
Research interest: Mitochondrial dynamics in T cell exhaustion
Lorene Rousseau, MD
Hometown: France
Research interest: Epigenetic reprogramming in cell therapy
Yi-Hao Wang, MS
Hometown: Taiwan
Research interest: Metabolic signals in dendritic cells
Hometown: Switzerland
Research interest: Dendritic cell dysfunction and DC-guided microenvironmental features
Stefania Vibois, MS
Mina Tsakovska, MS
Hometown: Bulgaria
Research interest: Metabolic homeostasis in T cell exhaustion
Hometown: Taiwan
Research interest: Metabolic profiling technique and in vivo tracing tool development
Stanislav Dergun, MS
Hometown: Ukraine
Research interest: Metabolic adaptation in regulatory T cells in autoimmune
Yu-Ming Chuang, MS
Lab Manager and Research Assistant
Francesca Alfei, Ph.D.
Experimental and technical Manager
Hometown: Italy
Yao-Chen Tsui, MS
Hometown: Taiwan
Ordering Manager/Mouse colony
Teresa Crispim
Hometown: Portugal
Secretary
Incoming members
Alumni
Pu-Ste Liu, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2015-2017 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Assistant Professor, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan
Wan-Chen Cheng, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2015-2018 (Ph.D.)
Current Position: Senior Medical Science Liaison (Daiichi Sankyo)
Chun-Pu Lin, MS
Training Period: 2016-2017 (Intern)
Current Position:
Postdoc., Sanguine, Netherland
Haiping Wang, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2016-2020 (Ph.D.)
Current Position:
Postdoc., University of Geneva, Switzerland
Chin-Hsien Tsai, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2018-2020 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Associate Professor, TMU, Taiwan
Sheue-Fen Tzeng, Ph.D.
Period: 2018-2020
(Postdoc.)
Current Position: Assistant Investigator,
TMU, Taiwan
Period: 2019-2020
(Master Student)
Current Position: PhD student, BioNTech, Germany
Period: 2020-2021
(Research assistant)
Current Position: PhD student, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Lia Dahl, MS
Amrita Manchala, MS
Giusy Di Conza, Ph.D.
Zhiyu Li, MD
Pia Neubert
Sofie Hedlund Moller, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2016-2021 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Head of Research (iOnctura)
Training Period: 2021
(Visting PhD student)
Current Position: Surgeon, China
Period: 2020-2021
(Intern & Master Student)
Current Position: PhD student (University of Basel)
Period: 2020-2025
(Postdoc.)
Current Position: Senior postdoc. (Ludwig)
Fabien Franco, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2016-2023
(Master and PhD)
Current Position:
Postdoc., University of Calgary, Canada
Xiaoyun Li, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2016-2023
(Intern and PhD)
Current Position:
Postdoc., University of Basel, Switzerland
Johannes Schwenck, MD
Training Period: 2021-2023
(Postdoc.)
Current Position:
W2 Professor, University of Tuebingen, Germany
Jhan-Jie Peng, MS
Training Period: 2021-2023
(Visting PhD)
Current Position:
PhD, Chang Gung University, Taiwan
Alison Jaccard, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2019-2023
(PhD)
Current Position:
Postdoc., University of Pennsylvania, USA
Alessio Bevilacqua, PhD
Training Period:
2018 (Master Intern)
2019-2024 (PhD)
Current Position:
Scientist (iOnctura)
Yi-Ru Yu, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2019-2023 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Senior Scientist
(Pilatus Biosciences)
Mei-Chun Lin, MD/Ph.D.
Training Period: 2023-2024
(Visiting Professor)
Current Position:
Associate Professor
(National Taiwan University Hospital)
Yingxi Xu, Ph.D.
Training Period: 2021-2024 (Postdoc.)
Current Position:
Associate Professor
(Tianjin Institutes of Health Sciences)