Yen Hao Chen
Georgia Regents University, USA
Biography
Yen Hao Chen obtained his PhD degree at the University of California, Riverside in 2006. He joined Dr. Ricardo Azziz's lab in California and studied Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS) in 2008. He got his full-time tenure-track faculty position as Assistant Professor on November 1, 2012 in Georgia Regents University. His research focuses on studying insulin resistance in adipose (fat) tissue from PCOS patients. He has discovered different microRNAs expression profile in adipose tissue from PCOS. Among these microRNAs, he found a specific small RNA called miR-93 which is over-expressed and may cause insulin resistance in fat tissue.
Abstract
Abstract : Adipose tissue dysfunction in PCOS