Outstanding female cancer research paper awards of the 2015 Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Hsu Chien-Tien Cancer Foundation

摘要

The Hsu Chien-Tien Cancer Foundation, established in 1975, has supported and encouraged cancer research for a long time. In this issue of the Taiwanese Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, we are happy to introduce the winners of the 2015 Hsu Chien-Tien Cancer Foundation Outstanding Research Paper Award. The awards were selected from among female cancer research papers published in 2015, and the first author should be a member of the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology (TAOG). The golden award goes to Dr Ying-Cheng Chiang, for his research paper entitled “Overexpression of CHI3L1 is association with chemoresistance and poor outcome of epithelial ovarian carcinoma” [1]. Dr Wen-Fang Cheng, the corresponding author of this paper, is a professor at the National Taiwan University Hospital. The silver award winner is Dr Chia-Yen Huang, for his research paper entitled “Urokinase-type plasminogen activator resulting from endometrial carcinogenesis enhances tumor invasion and correlates with poor outcome of endometrial carcinoma patients” [2]. The corresponding author of this article is also Dr Wen-Fang Cheng. Dr Cheng is the biggest winner at the Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology, because his two students obtained the first and second awards of the 2015 Hsu Chien-Tien Cancer Foundation Outstanding Research Paper Award in this year. The copper award winner is Dr Keng-Fu Hsu, for his research paper entitled “Overexpression of the RNA-binding proteins Lin28B and IGF2BP3 (IMP3) is associated with chemoresistance and poor disease outcome in ovarian cancer” [3]. All winners received their awards at the Annual Meeting of the Taiwan Association of Obstetrics and Gynecology on March 5 and 6, 2016, held in Taipei, Taiwan.