Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dr. Zi-Lun Lai is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Division of Innovation and Translational Research, Department of Laboratory Medicine, China Medical University Hospital, and concurrently serves as Head of the Section of Industry-academia Research and Development. Her expertise includes clinical microbiome research, infectious genomics, long-read sequencing, and pathogen metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS). She is also actively involved in the development of laboratory-developed tests (LDTs) and their clinical translation. Dr. Lai
has participated in the development of the Intelligent Microbiome Evaluation (iMe) platform, which has received the National Innovation Award, the National Healthcare Quality Award (NHQA), and the Innovative Improvement Award.