Principal Investigator

Dr. Chiu is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Division of Malignant Hematology and Medicine Oncology, Assistant Professor of Computational and Systems Biology (secondary), a member of the Cancer Therapeutics Program at the UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, and a member of the Pittsburgh Liver Research Center of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Prior to starting his independent lab at the University of Pittsburgh in 2022, he received interdisciplinary training towards cancer bioinformatics: BS in Electrical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan (2010) and PhD in Bioinformatics in an integrative environment of biomedical engineering and medicine at National Taiwan University (2015). During 2017-2022, Dr. Chiu conducted his postdoctoral research at Greehey Children’s Cancer Research Institute at the University of Texas Health San Antonio in research labs of Drs. Yidong Chen and Peter Houghton.

Dr. Chiu’s research interests include bioinformatics, machine learning, cancer genomics, and pharmacogenomics. The goal of his research is to systematically model genomics and pharmacogenomics to study cancer biology and improve cancer therapy. He is the recipient of many federal and private awards to support his research projects:

Active

• NIH NIGMS R35 Maximizing Investigators' Research Award (2024-2029) Link

• NIH NCI K99/R00 Pathway to Independence Award (2020-2025) Link

• NIH Office of the Director (OD) Common Fund R03 Award  (2023-2024; MPI with Dr. Yinan Gong) Link

• NIH Office of the Director (OD) Administrative Supplement Award  (2023-2024) Link

• Leukemia Research Foundation New Investigator Research Grant Program (2023-2025) Link

Recently completed

• UPMC Hillman Cancer Center Developmental Pilot Program (2023; MPI with Dr. Yu-Chih Chen) Link

• Pittsburgh Liver Research Center (PLRC) Pilot and Feasibility (P&F) Grant (2023-2024) Link

• Hillman Early Career Fellow for Innovative Cancer Research (2022-2023) Link

• Fund for Innovation in Cancer Informatics (ICI) (2020-2023) Link

• San Antonio Life Sciences Institute (SALSI) (2018-2019)

Dr. Chiu has been an active member of the academic enterprise, teaching and mentoring others. Outside of research, Dr. Chiu is a badminton player and has earned a professional “S Rank” (Switch Sports 😃).