Tsay is a distinguished research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She is a plant biologist known for her research on nitrate transport, nitrate signaling, and nitrogen-use efficiency, widly recognized for identifying the first nitrate transporter gene in plants, elucidating novel mechanisms of nitrate transport, and pioneering studies demonstrating that transporters, now known as transceptors, can also function as sensors. She obtained her BSc and MSc degrees from National Taiwan University, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1990. She served on the editorial board of Plant Physiology from 2011 to 2022. She was named a KIA Laureate and has received several awards, including the Academia Sinica Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the MOST Outstanding Research Award, the Hou-Chin Dui Outstanding Award, the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Award, the MOE Academic Award, the ASPB Enid MacRobbie Corresponding Membership, and the CTCI Science and Technology Contribution Award. She was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2021, and an academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, in 2024.

Chen received her BSc in physics from the National Taiwan University in 1981, and her PhD in applied physics from Harvard University (1989). Then, she worked at the General Electric Corporate R&D, Schenectady, New York (1989–1994), joined the Center for Condensed Matter Sciences (CCMS), NTU in 1994, and became a professor with the Physics Department in 2021. Chen was the director of CCMS (2012–2018), and since 2018 has been the director of the Center of Atomic Initiative for New Materials, a research centre featured by the Sprout Project under the Ministry of Education (MoE) in Taiwan. Chen’s group is specialized in low-dimensional nanomaterials and their applications for optoelectronics and energy. She is a Fellow of both the Physical Society and the Vacuum Society in Taiwan, and the Materials Research Society in USA. She has received numerous honours that include a Laureate of the 22nd Khwarizmi International Award, the Outstanding Research Award by the National Science and Technology Council (twice), the MoE Academic Award, and the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science. Chen was elected as an Academician of the Asia Pacific Academy of Materials and Academician of Academia Sinica.

Hung, PhD, is president for China Medical University in Taiwan. He was vice-president for basic research and professor and chair of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Oncology at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas. Hung is a basic scientist with a keen translational vision and especially his recent research effort has significantly contributed to understanding the biology of cancer and to developing combinational cancer therapies to overcome resistance. Up to date, Hung has published more than 679 peer-reviewed articles, of which over 194 were published in journals with impact factor 10 or above. His lifetime h-index reaches to 177 (Google Scholar). He is one of the members of the selection committee for Tang Prize in Biopharmaceutical Science category, and is one of the founding editorial members for Cancer Cell (2002–2020). He serves as Advisory Board/Editors for Molecular Cell, Cancer Research, Cancer and Metastasis Reviews, Molecular Carcinogenesis, Cancer Letters, JCI...etc. He recnetly received the JCA International Award (2023) and the Cell and Cancer Research Elite Award from PPSSC (2024).