Ann-lii Cheng MD, PhD

Ann-Lii Cheng is a distinguished professor and Director of the NTU Cancer Center of National Taiwan University. He received his MD degree, Ph.D. degree, and his specialty training in internal medicine and medical oncology at the Medical School of the National Taiwan University. In 1990, he was a research fellow at the Comprehensive Cancer Center of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA. Dr. Cheng has been actively involved in basic and translational research in hepatocellular carcinoma and has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2007. He received the national award for “outstanding contributions to science and technology” in 2008, and a most prestigious national award for academic excellence in 2010. He served as president of the Taiwan Oncology Society during 2009- to 2011. He was elected as National Chair Professorship in 2013 and became the founding director of NTU Cancer Center in 2013.