I received my PhD in biomedical engineering at National Taiwan University in 2019, where I studied multifunctional nanomedicine and cancer therapy. After that, I worked as a training assistant professor at Hiroshima University for one year, exploring the development of muscle-tendon interfaces via in silico, in vitro, and in vivo approaches. I joined OIST in early 2022 and expanded my research interests to muscle development and functions and their implications in human evolution. Currently, I am using various approaches, including metabolomics analysis, behavior tests, whole-mount staining, MRI, etc., to study how human-specific genetic changes in muscle enzymes make us different from our closest evolutionary relatives.
