Prof. Hsian-Rong Tseng, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, David Geffen School of Medicine
Prof. Hsian-Rong (HR) Tseng is a Professor of Molecular & Medical Pharmacology at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He also holds joint memberships in the California NanoSystems Institute, Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, and Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center on the UCLA campus. At the UCLA Liquid Biopsy Laboratory, which he co-directs, Prof. Tseng and his team develop in vitro diagnostics (IVD) technologies for use in oncology and perinatology. To commercialize these platform technologies, he founded CytoLumina Technologies Corp. and Eximius Diagnostics. Under Prof. Tseng's leadership, CytoLumina's NanoVelcro Chips was recognized as a Success Story by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) Innovative Molecular Analysis Technologies (IMAT) program in October 2019. Prof. Tseng earned his PhD in Chemistry from National Taiwan University in 1998 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in UCLA Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Sir Fraser Stoddart, the 2016 Nobel Laureate in Chemistry.
