Wu has over 10 years of experience in bioinformatics, immunology, and cancer research. She received her Master of Engineering in Bioinformatics from NYU in 2017 and her Master of Science in Life Science from National Taiwan Normal University in 2006. Her research has included projects analyzing CAR-T cell markers in mesothelioma patients, screening for metastatic genes in pancreatic cancer, and detecting EGFR mutations in lung cancer specimens. She is proficient in Python, C++, R, Perl, Linux, Next Generation Sequencing, microarrays, and various molecular and cellular techniques.

1. Wu, Pei-Chen
7438, 43rd Avenue, Elmhurst, New York, USA, 11373; 626-283-9635; payjin@gmail.com
EDUCATION
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (NYU) New York, USA
Mater of Engineering in Bioinformatics 09/2015 – 01/2017
● Skills: Python, C++, Language R, Perl, Linux, NGS, Microarray
● Project1: Design the airline management system by C++.
● Project2: Create the pipeline for repeatmaskering and blasting the Human and Mouse
genome data by PERL .
● Graduate Scholarship is the Highest Tier.
● Graduate Teaching Assistant for Bioinformatics II.
Class: Foundation in Computer Science. (Graduate class in Computer Science)
Data Structure and Algorithms. (in C++)(Graduate class in Computer Science)
Bioinformatics I : Sequence Analysis. (in PERL)
NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY (NTNU) Taipei, Taiwan
Master of Science in Life Science (GPA: 3.77) 06/2006
● Thesis: “The co-evolution of primary symbionts composed bactariocyte and Bemisia
argentifolii in genomic level”
● Skills: Fluorescence in situ hybridization, Pulse-field gel electrophoresis, Transmission
electronic microscopy, Cloning, Ficoll isolation, clustalW, PAUP, 3D simulation (Amira),
Statistic analysis (SPSS).
● Conference presentation: Taiwan Joint of Plant Protection Society of the Republic of
China and Entomology Conference. (2004)
● Project and Publication: “The ultra-structure of bacteriocytes formed by primary symbiont
resides in the Bemisia argentifolii and co-evolution relation by 16s rRNA phylogenic
analysis.” Published in National Taiwan Congress of Entomology. (2005)
WORK EXPERIENCE
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER New York, USA
Immunotherapy Research Technician(CAR-T cell) in Michel Sadelain / Prasad Adusumilli’s Lab
07/2014 - 07/2015
● Accomplished Project
1. Analyzing infiltrated CAR-T cells markers(CD3/CD4/CD8/CD45) in clinical sample
from mesothelioma patients before and after immunotherapy.
2. To construct system for primary culturing mesothelioma cancer cell line from
effusion and solid tumor.
● Skills: Microarray, T-cells isolation (Ficoll),T cell modification(CAR-Tcell), CTL assay,
orthotopic injection, BLI, cancer cell primary culture, Flow Cytometry, MS Excel, SPSS
(Certified by MSKCC)
WEILL MEDICAL COLLEGE OF CORNELL UNIVERSITY New York,
USA
Research Associate in Nancy Du’s Lab 07/2013 - 07/2014
● Accomplished Project
Screening metastatic-related shRNA by pSUPER RNAi system in pancreatic cancer.
● Skills: Molecular cloning, sequence analysis, mouse model, shRNA system, genotyping.
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, CENTER OF GENOMIC MEDICINE Taipei, Taiwan
Senior Research Assistant in Chao-Chi Ho and Pan-Chyr Yang’s Lab 09/2009 – 06/2013

2. ● Accomplished Project:
1. Detection of EGFR mutation in malignant pleural effusion of lung cancer patients and
built cancer cell lines establishment method from clinical specimens in hypoxia.
2. EGFR mutant NSCLC transformed into SCLCs after TKI (tyrosine kinase inhibitor)
treatment with identical EGFR mutant type (progressing).
● Skills: NGS, primary culture, Q-PCR, Flow cytometry, cells sorting, immunofluorescence
stain, confocal microscopy, micro-beads, laser-enabled analysis processing system, MASS
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY Taipei, Taiwan
Research Assistant in Professor Min-Huey Chen’ Lab 2008
● National Science Council Project:
Differentiation of human telomerase reverse transcriptase (hTERT)-expressed human mesenchymal
stem cells into germline and trophoectoderm cells and studies on the related epigenetic events
● Skills: transfection (Electroporation, Calcium-phosphate-mediated, Lipofectamine, stable
clone, western blot
NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY, COLLEGE OF MEDICINE Taipei, Taiwan
Research Assistant in Cancer Research Center 2007
● Department of Health, Executive Yuan Project:
The synergistic effect of molecular target therapy drugs screening in liver cancer.
● Skills: MTT, cell culture
PUBLICATIONS
● “Endobronchial ultrasound-guided transbronchial biopsy: How many specimens are
necessary?” Respiration 2012; 84:128-34
● “The ultra-structure of bacteriocytes formed by primary symbiont resides in the Bemisia
argentifolii and co-evolution relation by 16s rRNA phylogenic analysis.” Published in
National Taiwan Congress of Entomology. 2005
LEADERSHIP
NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY Taipei,Taiwan
● The Senior High SchoolTeaching Certificate in R.O.C.. 2006
● The Volunteer in the Taipei benevolent educational society for the blind.
NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY Taichung, Taiwan
● The Student Representative of NCHU academic communication group 2003
with Peking University and Inner Mongolia Agricultural University in China.
● The Judge of annual singing competition in NCHU.
● The Pivotal Coordinator in NCHU Insect Camp.