Ching-Yao Yang, Associate Professor

Brief Introduction

• 2024 - Present: Vice Director, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH)
• 2024 - Present: Team Leader, Pancreas Surgery, Department of Surgery, NTUH
• 2021 - Present: Associate professor, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, NTU
• 2015 - 2021: Assistant professor, Department of Surgery, NTU
• 2007 - Present: Attending surgeon, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, NTUH
• 2002 - 2007: Attending surgeon, Department of Traumatology, NTUH
• 2002: Fellow, Transplantation, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital
• 2001: Chief Resident, Division of General Surgery, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital
• 1997 - 2000: Resident, Department of Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital

Specialty

• MIS surgery on pancreas, spleen, and GIST.
• Clinical and translational research on pancreatic cancer, PNETs, and GIST.

Education

• 2011: PhD, Graduate Institute of Toxicology, College of Medicine, NTU (Molecular and Cancer Toxicology)
• 1995: MD, graduated from Taipei Medical University

Experience

• 2019 - 2020: Fellowship for pancreas transplantation program at Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
• 2004 - 2005: Fellowship at cGMP Lab for Human Islet Isolation, and Translational Research Lab at Diabetes Research Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine & Clinical Human Islet Transplantation Program at Diabetes Research Institute, and Jackson Memorial Hospital, University of Miami School of Medicine, USA

Selected Publications

1. Chiou LW, Chan CH, Jhuang YL, Yang CY*, Jeng YM*. DNA replication stress and mitotic catastrophe mediate sotorasib addiction in KRASG12C-mutant cancer. J Biomed Sci. 2023 Jun 29;30(1):50. (Corresponding author)
2. Chan CH, Chiou LW, Lee TY, Liu YR, Hsieh TH, Yang CY*, Jeng YM*. PAK and PI3K pathway activation confers resistance to KRASG12C inhibitor sotorasib. Br J Cancer. 2023 Jan;128(1):148-159. (Corresponding author)
3. Sasaki T, Yang CY*, Nakagawa K, Nagai M, Nishiwada S, Terai T, Sho M. Safety and Feasibility of Single-incision Laparoscopic Distal Pancreatectomy. Surg Laparosc Endosc Percutan Tech. 2022 Aug 1;32(4):488-493. (Corresponding author)
4. Li WT, Jeng YM, Yang CY*. Claudin-18 as a Marker for Identifying the Stomach and Pancreatobiliary Tract as the Primary Sites of Metastatic Adenocarcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol. 2020 Dec;44(12):1643-1648. (Corresponding author)