曾玉華
Dr. Tseng is an Associate Professor of Medicine in Harvard Medical School, an Investigator in the Section on Integrative Physiology and Metabolism at Joslin Diabetes Center, and a Principal Faculty of Harvard Stem Cell Institute. She received her doctorate in Developmental Biology and Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Dr. Linda Schuler. She completed postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. C. Ronald Kahn at Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School. She serves or has served on the grant review panels for the National Institutes of Health, the American Diabetes Association, the Department of Defense, U.S. Army Medical Research and Material Command, and the European Research Council. Dr. Tseng was a recipient of the Individual National Research Service Award from the National Institute of Health and was an Eleanor and Miles Shore Scholar in Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Education/Training:
1989 B.S. Medical Technology National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan
1991 M.S. Microbiology and Immunology (Thesis advisor: Dr. Lih-Hwa Hwang) National Taiwan University
1997 Ph.D. Developmental Biology, Cellular and Molecular Biology (Thesis advisor: Dr. Linda A. Schuler) University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin
2004 Postdoc Training Cellular and Molecular Physiology (PI: Dr. C. Ronald Kahn) Joslin Diabetes Center (JDC), Boston, MA; Harvard Medical School (HMS), Boston, MA
Faculty Academic Appointments
07/04-11/09 Instructor MedicineHarvard Medical School
12/09-03/14 Assistant Professor Medicine Harvard Medical School
04/14-present Associate Professor Medicine Harvard Medical School
Appointments at Hospitals/Affiliated Institutions
Past
07/04-12/05 Research Associate Cellular and Molecular Physiology Joslin Diabetes Center
01/06-01/10 Assistant Investigator Obesity and Hormone Action Joslin Diabetes Center
10/09-10/11 Affiliated Faculty Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI), Cambridge, MA
01/10-05/12 Assistant Investigator Integrative Physiology and Metabolism Joslin Diabetes Center
Current
03/07-present Investigator Harvard Clinical Nutrition Center (now Nutrition Obesity Research Center), Cambridge, MA
10/11-present Principal Faculty Harvard Stem Cell Institute
05/12-present Investigator Integrative Physiology and Metabolism Joslin Diabetes Center
07/14-present Faculty Biological and Biomedical Sciences Harvard Medical School
Major Administrative Leadership Positions
Local
2010-2012 Co-Director, Enrichment Core, Diabetes and Endocrinology Research Center Joslin Diabetes Center
2010-2012 Organizer, Weekly Internal Seminar Series Joslin Diabetes Center
2010-present Organizer, Educational Program of National Institutes of Health (NIH) T32 training grant Joslin Diabetes Center
2011-present Member, Section Heads Committee (as a representative of Assistant Professors) Joslin Diabetes Center National
2015-present Member, Advisory Board, the 50th Miami Winter Symposium on “Diabetes: Today’s Research – Tomorrow’s Therapies”, Miami
The Miami Winter Symposium
International
2014-present Lead Organizer, 2016 Symposium on Obesity/Adipose Tissue Biology, Canada Keystone Symposium
Honors and Prizes
2000 Travel Award Keystone Symposia
2005 Eleanor and Miles Shore Scholar in Medicine Harvard Medical School
2006 Travel Award NIH Lipodystrophy and the Metabolic Consequences of Altered Fat Deposition Workshop
2007 The Endocrine Society Travel Award
2014 Hazel K. Stiebeling lectureship Florida State University
2012-14 Visiting Professorship National Defense Medical Center, Taipei, Taiwan