Dr. Jung-Chi Liao founded SYNCELL in 2020 with the optoproteomics technology invented in his lab at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. Under his guidance, the SYNCELL team is advancing the Microscoop product development and business strategy to realize SYNCELL’s vision to become a dominant player in spatial omics. Dr. Liao takes a precision synergy approach to create a cooperative and efficient culture suitable for multidisciplinary communication. Having been immersed in the high-tech spinoff environment at MIT, Cal Berkeley, Stanford, and Columbia, he shapes SYNCELL to match the high caliber and advance toward a leading global life science equipment company.

From 2003 to 2008, Lucy was Vice President of the US Chief Technology Officer at Roche Diagnostics. In her early career, Lucy focused on drug development at Genentech and BMS, before switching to marketing at Applied Biosystems to market novel life science instruments and reagents.” to “From 2003 to 2008, Lucy was Vice President of the US Chief Technology Office at Roche Diagnostics. In her early career, Lucy focused on drug development at Genentech and BMS before switching to marketing at Applied Biosystems to market novel life science instruments and reagents.

Yi-De Chen is a co-inventor of Syncell’s Microscoop system. As the VP Technology, he is responsible for leading all the R&D technical development, including optics, mechatronics, software, chemistry, and biology applications. Prior to joining Syncell, he dedicated seven years to the invention and development of the Microscoop optoproteomics and image-guided photolabeling technology.

During this formative period, he has developed strong technical expertise and interdisciplinary R&D management experiences to successfully drive the prototype system development across all functions. Yi-De holds an MS degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University and a BS degree in physics from Soochow University.

Ya-Lan Hsieh has been serving as Vice President of Administration since the inception of Syncell in May 2020. At Syncell, she oversees human resources, finance, licensing/contracts, and office management. Prior to joining Syncell, Ya-Lan served as the General Manager of Taiwan Biobank, where she successfully built and scaled the whole operation to build the largest biorepository and database with annotated genetic, environmental, and clinical information of local population. During her 14-year career at Taiwan Biobank, her leadership and operational excellence helped lay a solid foundation for biomedical research and clinical investigations in Taiwan.

Ya-Lan holds an MS degree from Institute of Biomedical Sciences of National Sun Yat-Sen University and a BS degree in Public Health from China Medical College.