NAME: Jaw-Wen Chen
DEPT: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine
ORGANIZATION: Taipei Veterans General Hospital
ADDRESS: 201, Section 2, Shih-Pai Road, Taipei, Taiwan
TELEPHONE No: 886-2-28712121 ext 3793
FAX No: 886-2-28711601
E MAIL ADDRESS: jwchen@vghtpe.gov.tw
TITLE: Professor of Medicine

TOTAL GRANTS: USD 100,000 per year
TOTAL PUBLICATIONS: 85 original papers and 3 review articles (till Nov. 2006)
MEMBERSHIPS ON EDITORIAL BOARDS: Frontiers in Bioscience, Acta Cardiologica Sinica, Journal of Chinese Medical Association

SUBJECT(S) OF RESEARCH: Oxidative stress and antioxidant treatment in atherogenesis, redox-sensitive transcription factor, endothelial progenitor cells,s, endothelial function, inflammatory markers in clinical atherosclerosis, coronary hemodynamics, coronary microvascular disease, secondary hypertension, genetics of young-onsetet hypertension
DISCIPLINE(S): Cardiovascular medicine
ORGAN SYSTEMS: cardiovascular system
TISSUES: vessels
CELL(S): endothelial cells, mononuclear cells, endothelial progenitor cells
MOLECULE(S): adhesion molecules, transcription factor, superoxide, nitric oxide, inflammatory cytokines
TECHNIQUE(S): cell biology and molecular biology