Asst. Prof. Wei-Wen Liu

Education

• Ph.D. in Pathology, National Taiwan University
• B.S. in Animal Science, National Chung Hsing University

Experience

• Postdoctoral fellow of Graduate Institute of Biomedical Electronics and Bioinformatics, National Taiwan University

1. Role of the mechanical microenvironment in tumor development
2. Ultrasound contrast agents-assisted drug delivery and dental diseases treatment
3. Development of three-dimensional oral tissue regeneration platforms

1. Shao-Lun Lu, Pei-Yu Chao, Wei-Wen Liu, Kun Han, Jason Chia-Hsien Cheng, Pai-Chi Li. Longitudinal shear wave elasticity measurements of millimeter-sized biomaterials using a single-element transducer platform. PLoSOne. 2022 Apr, 17(4):e0266235.
2. Wei-Wen Liu, Hung-Chih Ko, Pai-Chi Li. Sonoporation based on repeated vaporization of gold nanodroplets. Medical Physics. 2022 Feb, 49(4):2761-2773.
3. Wei-Wen Liu, Sheng-Hong Chen, Pai-Chi Li. Functional photoacoustic calcium imaging using chlorophosphonazo III in a 3D tumor cell culture. Biomedical Optics Express. 2021 Jan, 12:1154–1166
4. Shao-Lun Lu, Wei-Wen Liu, Jason Chia-Hsien Cheng, Lien-Chieh Lin, Churng-Ren Chris Wang, Pai-Chi Li. Enhanced radiosensitization for cancer treatment with gold nanoparticles through sonoporation. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2020 Nov, 21:8370
5. Wei-Wen Liu and Pai Chi Li. Photoacoustic imaging of cells in a three-dimensional microenvironment. Journal of Biomedical Science. 2020 Jan, 27:3
6. Wei-Wen Liu, Sy-Han Huang, Pai-Chi Li. Synchronized optical and acoustic droplet vaporization for effective sonoporation. Pharmaceutics. 2019 Jun, 11:279-294.
7. Yu-Hsiang Hsu*, Wei-Wen Liu*, Tung-Han Wu, Carina Jean-Tien Lee, Yu-Hsi Chen, Pai-Chi Li. (*equal contribution) Study of diffusive- and convective-transport mediated microtumor growth in a controlled microchamber. Biomedical Microdevices. 2019 Jan, 21:7.
8. Pei-Yu Chao, Wei-Wen Liu, Shih-Feng You, Pai-Chi Li. Shear wave elasticity measurements of three-dimensional cancer cell culture using laser speckle contrast imaging. Scientific Reports. 2018 Sep, 8:14470.
9. Shih-Yu Chen, Chun-Ta Ho, Wei-Wen Liu, Mark Lucanic, Hsiu-Ming Shih, Pei-Hsin Huang, Hwai-Jong Cheng. Regulation of axon repulsion by MAX-1 SUMOylation and AP-3. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 2018 Aug, 115:E8236-E8245.
10. Wei-Wen Liu, Shu-Wei Liu, Yu-Ren Liou, Yu-Hsun Wu, Ya-Chuen Yang, Churng-Ren Chris Wang, Pai-Chi Li. Nanodroplet-vaporization-assisted sonoporation for highly effective delivery of photothermal treatment. Scientific Reports. 2016 Apr, 6:24753.
11. Wei-Wen Liu, Shih-Yu Chen, Hwai-Jong Cheng, Pei-Hsin Huang. Blm-s, a novel BH3-only protein enriched in postmitotic immature neurons, is transcriptionally upregulated by p53 during DNA damage. Cell Reports. 2014 Oct, 9:1-14.