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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

 

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