Cheng-Ming Chuong 鍾正明 Election Year 2008 Dept. of Pathology
University of Southern California
2011 Zonal Ave. HMR 313B
Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A. Tel: (949) 413-4942 / Fax: (323) 442-3049
Current Positions
Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, LA, CA; Director, Laboratory of Tissue Development and Regeneration
Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of Pathology, USC, Los Angeles, CA.
Honorary positions:
Honorary Director, Research Center for Developmental Biology and Regenerative Medicine, National Taiwan University; Honorary Director, Integrative Stem Cell Center, China Medical University; Honorary Director, iEGG Integrative and Evolutionary Galliformes Genomics Research Center, National Chung-Hsing Univ.
Education
M.D., National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan (1978)
Ph.D., The Rockefeller University, Lab. Developmental and Molecular biology, Mentor: G. M Edelman (1983)
Professional Experience
Professional Experience:
Assistant Professor, Dept. of Developmental/Molecular Biology, Rockefeller, New York (1983-1987)
Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology, USC, Los Angeles, CA (1988-1992)
Associate Professor, Department of Pathology, USC, Los Angeles, CA (1992-1998)
Professor, Department of Pathology, University of Southern California, LA, CA (1998-Present)
Chair, Graduate Committee, Department of Pathology, USC, Los Angeles, CA (2001-Present)
Grant review:
NIH grant review, 1994-2004, ad hoc reviewers for CBY, GMA1, program projects, center grants, fellow grants, etc.; 2003-2007, member, ACTS study section; MOSS ad hoc review 2012-2014 (8 times), NSF external reviewers. 1986-now, occasionally. International Grant reviews Taiwan; England, Ireland, Austria government, Finland, etc.
Stem cells, Developmental biology, Evo-Devo (evolution of developmental mechanisms) of the integuments, self-organizing behavior, topobiology
Awards and Honors
Awards and Honors:
1988: American Cancer Society Junior Faculty Research Award; 1991: Robert Cleland Teaching Award, University of Southern California; 1992: Zumberg Fellow, USC; 1994: Robert Cleland Teaching Award, 1998: Gorlin Symposium, USA; Podium speaker, British Society for Developmental Biology/Cell Biology, UK; Keynote speaker, Pacific Rim Skin Research Club, Taiwan; 2000: John Ebbling Lecture, European Hair Research Society, UK; Int. Conference of Limb development and regeneration; French Society Developmental Biology, France; International Avian Paleontology and Evolution, China; 2001: Symposium speaker, International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology, Germany; 2002: Don Orwin Lecture, Australia; 2003: Keynote Speech, Holland/Belgium Dermatology Society; 2004: Podium speaker, RIKEN Developmental Biology Symposium, Japan; Podium speaker, SCBA, China; 2006: Symposium speaker, Int Congress Biochem Mol. Biology, Japan; 2007: Associates Award for Creativity in Research, Univ. Southern California; Keynote speaker, Hair Research, USA; Saxén Medal awardee, Sigrid Juselius International Symposium, Finland; Podium speaker, International congress of Hair Res. Soc. Canada; Podium speaker, Pan Am Dev. Biol. Society meeting, Mexico; 2008, Elected to Academia Sinica, Taiwan; EMBO on regeneration; Fondation des Treilles symposium, France; Opening speech, Gordon Conf. on mammary gland, Italy; 2009, Regeneration project, U Florida; Gordon on salivary gland; Gordon on keratinocytes; TERMIS annual meeting, chair a wound healing session 2010, John Hopkins Pathology seminar; U Connecticut seminar; Wound Healing Society annual meeting, plenary speaker; SAWC, plenary speaker; EMBO annual meeting, workshop on Regeneration; 2011,UCI system biology course; Gordon Conf, Woodshole regeneration course; Stanford Univ. 2012, Riken Symposium, quantitative biology; Japan Hair Res Soc. Keynote; Chinese Amer Prof Asso, keynote; Taiwan Derma. Soc, keynote; 2013, Japan Dev Soc. Keynote. 2014. Talk in Uni, Utah, UC Berkeley, Univ Colorado, 2015. AAAS fellow. Keynote in World Congress of Hair Res Society, 2016. Kligman/Frost Leadership Award, Soc. Investigative Dermatology; Co-organizer of International Avian model systems 9 meeting. Taipei; Keynote speaker, Riken CDB Meeting “Body surface tactics: cellular crosstalk for the generation of super-biointerface”. 2017. Physical Society, ROC, keynote; GRC on keratinocyte speaker; Pan AM Evo Devo meeting speaker; World Congress Hair Research speaker; 2018, Taiwan Conference on Animal Behavior and Ecology, keynote
Honorary research chair professor:
National Taiwan University, China Medical University, National Cheng Kung University, National Chung Hsing University, Taipei Medical University, Chong Qing University, China Central South University