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2026
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Medicine
Taiwan
2026

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Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
108
Citations
52155
World Ranking
1036
National Ranking
3

Medicine

D-Index
108
Citations
52159
World Ranking
5924
National Ranking
10

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2026 - Research.com Medicine in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Medicine in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Biology and Biochemistry in Taiwan Leader Award

Overview

Hsing Jien Kung is affiliated with Taipei Medical University in Taiwan and works primarily in the field of Medicine, with a focus on Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Their research covers topics related to diabetes management, cardiovascular risks, and urban health environments.

The scientist has contributed to research in the subfields of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis, and Sociology and Political Science. Their work includes investigations into urban green spaces and their impacts on human well-being as well as diabetes management and education.

Recent publications include:

  • Balcony usage as a space to achieve human well-being during pandemic COVID-19, 2024, Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering
  • The association between medical accessibility and glycemic status in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: A retrospective study in Taiwan rural population, 2024, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

These papers relate to themes such as place attachment, urban studies, diabetes management, and cardiovascular health risks, underscoring an interdisciplinary approach bridging medical research with environment and social factors.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Hsing Jien Kung include:

  • Nguyen Giang Thi Ngoc
  • Lucky S. Tsaih
  • Julie Chia-Ping Chen
  • Stirena Rossy Tamariska
  • Ana Margarida Ferreira Coelho

Publications have appeared predominantly in the Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering and the bioRxiv preprint server from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Their research venues reflect a blend of architectural/environmental engineering and biomedical sciences.

The main topics of their work emphasize:

  • Urban Green Space and Health
  • Place Attachment and Urban Studies
  • Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
  • Diabetes Management and Research
  • Diabetes Management and Education

This profile outlines a research trajectory integrating health sciences with urban and environmental aspects, particularly concerning diabetes care and human well-being in changing urban contexts.

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Fabio C. Abdalla;Hagai Abeliovich;Robert T. Abraham

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • A Novel Androgen Receptor Splice Variant Is Up-regulated during Prostate Cancer Progression and Promotes Androgen Depletion–Resistant Growth

    Zhiyong Guo;Xi Yang;Feng Sun;Richeng Jiang

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • An androgen-regulated miRNA suppresses Bak1 expression and induces androgen-independent growth of prostate cancer cells.

    Xu Bao Shi;Lingru Xue;Joy Yang;Ai Hong Ma

  • Genotyping and genomic profiling of non-small-cell lung cancer: implications for current and future therapies.

    Tianhong Li;Hsing-Jien Kung;Philip C. Mack;David R. Gandara

  • Mapping unintegrated avian sarcoma virus DNA: Termini of linear DNA bear 300 nucleotides present once or twice in two species of circular DNA

    Peter R. Shank;Stephen H. Hughes;Hsing Jien Kung;John E. Majors

  • Proviruses of avian sarcoma virus are terminally redundant, co-extensive with unintegrated linear DNA and integrated at many sites.

    Stephen H. Hughes;Peter R. Shank;Deborah H. Spector;Hsing Jien Kung

  • Requirement of ErbB2 for signalling by interleukin-6 in prostate carcinoma cells

    Yun Qiu;Lakshmeswari Ravi;Hsing Jien Kung;Hsing Jien Kung

  • Characterization of a Novel Androgen Receptor Mutation in a Relapsed CWR22 Prostate Cancer Xenograft and Cell Line

    Clifford G. Tepper;David L. Boucher;Philip E. Ryan;Ai Hong Ma

  • Activation of the cellular oncogene c-erbB by ltr insertion: Molecular basis for induction of erythroblastosis by avian leukosis virus

    Yuen Kai T Fung;Wynne G. Lewis;Lyman B. Crittenden;Hsing Jien Kung

  • Arginine Deiminase as a Novel Therapy for Prostate Cancer Induces Autophagy and Caspase-Independent Apoptosis

    Randie H. Kim;Jodi M. Coates;Tawnya L. Bowles;Gregory P. McNerney

  • Etk/Bmx, a tyrosine kinase with a pleckstrin-homology domain, is an effector of phosphatidylinositol 3′-kinase and is involved in interleukin 6-induced neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer cells

    Yun Qiu;Dan Robinson;Tom G. Pretlow;Hsing-Jien Kung

  • CWR22: The First Human Prostate Cancer Xenograft with Strongly Androgen-dependent and Relapsed Strains Both in Vivo and in Soft Agar

    Moolky Nagabhushan;Casey M. Miller;Theresa P. Pretlow;Joseph M. Giaconia

  • CWR22: Androgen-dependent Xenograft Model Derived from a Primary Human Prostatic Carcinoma

    Mark A. Wainstein;Feng He;Daniel Robinson;Hsing-Jien Kung

  • Cancer-Derived Succinate Promotes Macrophage Polarization and Cancer Metastasis via Succinate Receptor.

    Jing Yiing Wu;Tsai Wang Huang;Yi Ting Hsieh;Yi Fu Wang

  • Marek disease virus encodes a basic-leucine zipper gene resembling the fos/jun oncogenes that is highly expressed in lymphoblastoid tumors.

    Dan Jones;Lucy Lee;Juinn Lin Liu;Hsing-Jien Kung

  • JMJD5 regulates PKM2 nuclear translocation and reprograms HIF-1α–mediated glucose metabolism

    Hung Jung Wang;Ya Ju Hsieh;Wen Chi Cheng;Chun Pu Lin

  • Signaling network of the Btk family kinases.

    Yun Qiu;Hsing Jien Kung

  • A long noncoding RNA connects c-Myc to tumor metabolism

    Chiu Lien Hung;Ling Yu Wang;Yen Ling Yu;Hong Wu Chen

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan R. Robinson
Dan R. Robinson University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
David K. Ann
David K. Ann City Of Hope National Medical Center
Lucy F. Lee
Lucy F. Lee United States Department of Agriculture
Kit S. Lam
Kit S. Lam University of California, Davis
Paul A. Luciw
Paul A. Luciw University of California, Davis
Richard L. Witter
Richard L. Witter Agricultural Research Service
Lyman B. Crittenden
Lyman B. Crittenden Michigan State University
Harold E. Varmus
Harold E. Varmus Cornell University
Dan Jones
Dan Jones The Ohio State University

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