The Cancer Engineering Lab
2026.01
Welcome Chao-Yang Guo to join the lab as a master’s student!
2025.12
Annual gathering at 遠東CAFÉ !
2025.11
Welcome Yun-Shan Tsai and Rou-Yi Lee to join the lab as undergrad researchers!
2025.09
Cancer Engineering Lab at the Japan Cancer Association (JCA) Annual Meeting!
We are thrilled to share that our outstanding students, master student Hung-Chi Hsu 許紘齊 and Ya-Hsin Hsu 許雅欣, and medical students Kuan-Cheng Chiu 邱冠幀 and Chiu-Hua Kuo 郭九華, successfully presented their research at the JCA Annual Meeting in Kanazawa. Their excellent work gained recognition and has been selected as the Young Investigator Poster Award Finalist!
Congratulations to Hung-Chi Hsu 許紘齊 for winning the Young Investigator Poster Award!
2025.08
Congratulations to Hung-Chi Hsu 許紘齊! We are proud to share that our brilliant master’s student, Hung-Chi Hsu, has been awarded Travel Grants from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) 國科會補助研究生出席國際會議 and National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University (NYCU) 陽明交通大學補助研究生出席國際會議 to present his research at the Japan Cancer Association (JCA) Annual Meeting in Kanazawa.
2025.08
Welcome Wei-Jie Chou and Yi Yun Hsu to join the lab as master’s students!
2025.07
Congratulations to Kuan-Cheng Chiu 邱冠幀 and Chiu-Hua Kuo 郭九華!
We are excited to share that our outstanding medical students, Kuan-Cheng Chiu and Chiu-Hua Kuo, have been accepted as Visiting Medical Students at Johns Hopkins University in Dr. Laura Wood’s lab this summer. This valuable experience supports our lab’s goal of integrating innovative tumor models with patient-derived tumor organoids to advance more clinically relevant applications. We wish them a productive research experience and an enjoyable summer in the US!
We sincerely thank Dr. Laura Wood and her lab members for their generous mentorship and support!
2025.07
Congratulations to Chiu-Hua Kuo 郭九華! We are proud to share that our talented medical student, Chiu-Hua Kuo, has been awarded the College Student Research Scholarship from the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) 國科會大專學生研究計畫.
2025.06
Summer gathering at 君悅凱菲屋!
2025.05
Dr. Su presented a poster at the Keystone Symposium: Single Cell Biology: Unique Cells to Tissue Ecosystems in Whistler, Canada.
2025.04
Dr. Su’s course, Cancer Biology and Tumor Model Engineering, is now on NYCU OCW.
2025.01
Dr. Su attended the 30th Symposium on Recent Advances in Cellular and Molecular Biology in Kenting, Taiwan.
2024.12
Annual gathering at 晶華栢麗廳!
2024.11
Welcome Ya-Hsin Hsu to join the lab as a master’s student!
2024.08
Congratulations to Dr. Su! We are pleased to share that Dr. Su has been awarded the Yushan Young Fellow 玉山青年學者 title by the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. This national recognition highlights Dr. Su’s efforts in advancing interdisciplinary cancer research and supporting the next generation of biomedical innovation. We are grateful for this support in continuing our efforts to develop new strategies for treating cancer recurrence and metastasis.
2024.07
Welcome Hung-Chi Hsu to join the lab as a master’s student!
2024.06
Summer gathering at 旭集!
2024.05
Lab space was finally ready!
2024.04
Dr. Su presented a poster at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting in San Diago, USA.
2024.02
Welcome Chiu-Hua Kuo and Kuan-Cheng Chiu to join the lab as undergrad researchers!
2024.02
Welcome Hsiang-Yen Liang to join the lab as an administrative assistant!
2023.12
Congratulations to Dr. Su! Dr. Su has been awarded the Li-Yang Shen Memorial Award 沈力揚獎, Taiwan.
2023.11
Dr. Su visited the School of Biomedical Engineering at Tohoku University, Japan, as a representative of the NYCU School of Biomedical Engineering. During the visit, she toured the Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering for Cancer, led by Professor Tetsuya Kodama.
2023.08
Welcome Syuan-Rong Chen to join the lab as a master’s student!
2023.08
The Cancer Engineering Lab started at NYCU, Taiwan!
2023.06
Congratulations to Dr. Su! Dr. Su has been awarded the first major research grant for the Cancer Engineering Lab under the Emerging Young Scholars track of the 2030 Cross-Generation Young Scholars Program 2030跨世代年輕學者方案-新秀學者, funded by the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), Taiwan. We sincerely appreciate this prestigious four-year grant, which supports our innovative research and accelerates our lab’s mission to engineer new strategies for combating cancer recurrence and metastasis.
Before the Cancer Engineering Lab
2022
Dr. Su earned her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University in October 2022 and continued as a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University until April 2023.
2016
Dr. Su started pursuing her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering in the US.
2012
Dr. Su completed her residency training in pathology and received certification as a pathologist. She then shifted her career to academia and began working on cancer research at Academia Sinica in Taiwan.
2008
Dr. Su earned her M.D. degree from Kaohsiung Medical University, Taiwan and Physician certification.
Chia-Yi Su Lab 