Chen Yi-ming (), also known as Arthur Chen, is a Taiwanese politician and oncologist. He was the vice president of Kaohsiung Medical University and a member of the Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020.
Before entering politics, Chen graduated from National Yang-Ming University and earned his doctorate from Harvard University. His medical research focuses on cancer, AIDS and epidemiology.
Education
Chen graduated with a Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1982 from National Yang-Ming University, where he was first in his class. In 1984, he earned a Master of Science (M.S.) from the university's Graduate Institute of Microbiology and Immunology. After completing his compulsory military service in Taiwan in 1986, Chen went to the United States to pursue graduate studies at Harvard University, where he earned a Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) specializing in
cancer research in under four years under the supervision of virologist
Max Essex.
After receiving his doctorate, Chen was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Cancer Institute in Frederick, Maryland, where he studied molecular oncology.
Career
He was the party-list legislator of the
Kuomintang in the 9th Legislative Yuan from 2016 to 2020.
[ During the 2019 protest on 2019, he pushed a female police officer and he apologized for that behavior.][
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In May 2018, he joined the Kuomintang's Kaohsiung mayoral primary campaign. Han Kuo-yu won that campaign and was subsequently nominated as the party's mayoral candidate.