Prof Nai Chen CHENG

Dr. Nai-Chen Cheng is a board-certified plastic surgeon in Taiwan. Clinically, he specializes in breast aesthetic and reconstructive surgery and treatment of difficult wounds. He has been the only two-time winner of the Best Reconstructive Save Award issued by Taiwan Society of Plastic Surgery. His research has been focused on applying adipose-derived stem cells in regenerative medicine, particularly wound healing. His team has investigated the biomaterial-assisted and scaffold-free 3D culture techniques to enhance the regenerative capabilities of adipose-derived stem cells. The series of study have been published in several first-tier journals, including Biomaterials, Acta Biomaterialia, Tissue Engineering and Stem Cells Translational Medicine. In 2016, Dr. Cheng was invited to give a speech in the annual conference of American College of Surgeons and received the International Guest Scholar Award. As a surgeon scientist, Dr. Cheng had been awarded the Career Development Grant from National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan. He also received the Dean Chen-Yuan Lee’s Memorial Award, National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 2018.