Our lab focuses on research in the elderly. Currently, we have projects on cognitive function, dementia, frailty, sarcopenia, and osteoporosis in Taiwanese elders (supported by Ministry of science and Technology and international) and international collaborative projects on prostate cancer. Our lab includes clinicians, graduate and undergraduate students. We also have extensive collaboration with clinicians of different specialties (geriatrics, neurology, gastroenterology, ophthalmology and nephrology) and experts from multidisplines (biostatistics, psychology, nutrition, metablome, and spatiotemporal environment). The goals of our lab is to

1. Explore how clinical, genetic or environmental factors and lifestyle affect the risk of geriatric-related diseases.
2. Research focus: dementia, cognition, frailty, sarcopenia, osteoporosis.
3. Explore the health status of older adults based on a long-term cohort study to predict geriatric diseases in the preclinical phase.

• Professor Chen won 2nd place in the freestyle event and claimed the championship in the breaststroke category at the 2024 Fall Semester Swimming Contest, as part of the Sports Competition at National Taiwan University, (10.2024)
• Our lab has entered into a long-term research collaboration agreement with Dementia Research Center, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technology University, Singapore (DRCS) (10.2024)
• The Cohort profile of Taiwan Initiative for Geriatric Epidemiological Research (TIGER) has been formally published（6.2024）
• NTU Spotlights "Interdisciplinary Research by NTU College of Public Health and NTU Hospital: Long-Term Low-Level Air Pollutant Exposure, Indoor Air Quality, and Dementia Risk" (5.2023)
• Prof. Chen was invited to deliver speeches at the International Symposium of the Asian Society Against Dementia (ASAD) （2022-2024）
• Prof. Chen's research was selected for oral presentation at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference (AAIC)  (2019-2022)
• Grace Jin, a Fulbright visiting scholar from Yale University (2020), visited Prof. Chen's lab（2.2021-12.2021）
• Jennifer Tu, a Luce Program Asian Foundation visiting scholar from Harvard University (2016), visited Prof. Chen's lab（9.2016-6.2017)
• Focus News of College of Public Health, National Taiwan University: Prof. Yen-Ching Karen Chen's lab found that particulate matter 10 µm or less in diameter (PM₁₀) and ozone increased the risk of dementia (6.2015)

• Research publications