Dr. Jane C.-J. Chao graduated from the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Management at the Ohio State University and obtained her Ph.D. degree in 1993. Subsequently, she had the post-doctoral training in the Division of Foods and Nutrition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 1993 to 1994, and returned to her alma mater Taipei Medical University to be the faculty member in the School of Nutrition and Health Sciences since 1995. She is currently in the position of Director in the Office of Continuing & Extension Education, Professor in the School of Nutrition and Health Sciences at Taipei Medical University. Over the past 28 years, her research primarily focused on the effects of herbal extracts and active components on gastrointestinal diseases. She has published numerous SCI journal papers and several book chapters, reviewed for many academic journals, and worked as a guest professor in Health Sciences University of Hokkaido. She is currently the member of American Society for Nutrition and the President of Nutrition Society of Taiwan, and the Executive supervisor of Chinese Taipei Association for the Study of Obesity. She has devoted herself to the innovative research in herbal foods and gastrointestinal diseases continuously.

Lab 657 briefing poster:

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Lab 657 in the School of Nutrition and Health Sciences at Taipei Medical University (TMU) is a molecular nutrition laboratory. We currently have 19 lab members including 1 PI (me), 3 research assistants, 1 postdoc (from Malaysia), 5 doctoral students (1 from India and 1 from Indonesia), 4 master’s students, and 5 professional master’s students. Among 19 lab members, there are 3 foreigners. The research in our lab mainly focuses on the effects of Lycium barbarum polysaccharides and probiotics as symbiotics on progression and remission of ulcerative colitis using animal and cell models with the collaboration of Prof. Tomonori Nochi at Tohoku University in Japan. We collaborate with the physicians at Taipei Municipal Wanfang Hospital for precision prediction model of the recovery in hip fracture patients after surgery using human study. Additionally, we are interested in the evaluation of functional foods on chronic disease using animal or human study. We have collaborated with Prof. Chyi-Huey Bai in the School of Public Health at TMU and Prof. Chien-Yeh Hsu at the National Taipei University of Nursing and Health Sciences for determining the association between dietary patterns and chronic diseases using big data analysis.