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Dr. Chang, Yi-Cheng

Joint Appointment Assistant Research Fellow
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Specialty:
  • Diabetes and Obesity
  • Genetic epidemiology

Education and Positions:
  • Education:

    M.D. -National Taiwan University

    Ph.D. -Academia Sinica and National Taiwan University Joint Ph.D. Program of Translational Medicine

     

    Position:

    - Associate Professor, Graduate Institute of Medical Genomics and Proteomics, Medical College, National Taiwan University

     

    - Attending Physician, Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, National Taiwan University Hospital

     

    - Vice CEO, Center for Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital


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Th17 helper T cells: a new actor on the stage of type 2 diabetes and ageing?

Dr. Chang, Yi-Cheng
Diabetes Investig , Mar 08, 2021

In conclusion, the elegant work by Bharath et al. provides a new link between IL-17 and aging, and highlighted the immunosuppressive effects of metformin through promoting autophagy in Th17 cells. These data add a new piece of evidence to the role of Th17 cells in ‘inflammaging’-associated chronic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, hypertension, dementia and periodontal diseases, in addition to previously well-known autoimmune diseases