Professor Hsiang-Chun Lee

Dr. Hsiang-Chun Lee’s current positions include Professor, Kaohsiung Medical University (KMU) and Chief, Dep Int. Medicine and cardiologist, KMU Gangshan Hospital. Dr. Lee started her PhD study of arrhythmias in 2008. During 2010 to 2013, she studied in Washington University in Saint Louis, where she incorporated the computational modeling and patch clamps to elucidate effects of alternative splicing of KCNQ1 on ventricular arrhythmogenicity (Heart Rhythm 2013). Dr. Lee built her Lab and initiated lipid researches in early 2014. She found that very-low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) of metabolic syndrome induces excess lipid accumulation and causes lipotoxicity, atrial myopathy with conduction delay (Sci Rep 2017), calcium dysregulation and myofilament disarray (J Clin Med 2019) and ultimately vulnerability to atrial fibrillation (Int J Mol Sci 2016). She was the first to articulate the role of postprandial VLDL and toxic lipids in atrial remodeling (Lipids Health Dis 2020 & Sci Rep 2023).