Ming-ju Chen PhD

Ming-Ju Chen is a Professor at the University of National Taiwan University (NTU), Taiwan. AT NTU, she has served as both the director of Center for International Agricultural Education and Academic Exchanges and the Chair of the Department of Animal Science and Technology. She earned the doctorate in Food Science and Technology at the Ohio State University and a Master Degree in Animal Science at National Taiwan University.

Dr. Chen’s research interests now include isolation and identification of new bacteria and yeasts from different resources and application these strains in human food and animal feed. She also involves the development of a new platform to evaluate the functionality of probiotics and study the possible mechanism and pathway. Dr. Chen has published over 100 papers in areas such as dairy science, microbiology, food science and functional food. She also contributes more than 7 book chapters.