Chiu Kuo-ping PhD

Kuo Ping Chiu got his PhD in Microbiology from UC Davis in 1991 and did his postdoc at Harvard Medical School on Neurosciences during 1993 - 1996. His research career is tightly associated with biotechnologies. His PhD research focused on developing in situ PCR methods to identify MMTV-infected cells, while his postdoctoral training was related to multiple colorimetric labeling of acetylcholine receptor subunit transcripts.

At Bio-Rad, he developed kits for flow cytometry-based antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Later he switched from wetlab to Bioinformatics and worked for GIS on developing paired-end ditag (PED) technology and methods for sequence data analysis. He moved back to Taiwan in 2008 to work for Academia Sinica on developing sequencing-related biotechnologies to facilitate cancer research and also teach at universities. He is currently holding three US patents related to PED technologies and recently published a book entitled “Next-Generation Sequencing and Sequence Data Analysis”.