DEEP & FAR

Yi-Pin Lai

Mr. Lai is a hardworking and responsible person. He majored in molecular biology and immunology in the Institute of Molecular Biology of National Chung-Hsing University from 1998 to 2001. His research project was focused on nasopharyneal carcinoma (NPC), a disease with higher incidence rate in the Southeast Asia, South China and Taiwan people. Mr. Lai successfully confirmed several NPC-specific molecules, and concluded that the serine residue on the commercialized phage display peptide might play an important role on recognizing the NPC cell line.

Being a research assistant in the National Institute of Cancer Research of National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) since 2003, Mr. Lai aimed at the protein signaling pathways involved in the apoptosis, metastasis and migration in the lung cancer cell line. He contributed his efforts in the experiments and daily duties, and the academic result was published on Cancer Research in 2007.

Mr. Lai decided to transfer his career from basic life science research to the patent field. He spent off-work time studying in the Intellectual Property Courses (Taipei) in the Institute of Technology Law of National Chiao Tung University last year. He received high grades in four courses and identified his ambition in the intellectual property field.

Mr. Lai entered Deep & Far as a patent engineer in 2007 and attempts having excellent performance for the firm and clients.

Not only does Mr. Lai love climbing mountains, such as Mt. Jade and other lower mountains in his leisure time, but also joined 10-km marathon several times.