Yang-Meng Wen

About

The route into laboratory leadership is what sets this career apart: Yang-Meng Wen reached the deputy director seat at NUWA Lab through bench embryology at two separate Taipei fertility units, USOON Fertility Center and Chi Hong Liu Fertility Center, rather than from a single long posting. Handling retrievals and transfers inside independent clinic laboratories means working with a small team where the same person covers egg handling, insemination or injection, culture and the freezing schedule, and that breadth is what carries into the management role now held.

The academic base is a graduate and undergraduate pair from National Dong Hwa University’s College of Science and Engineering, training centred on cell and molecular technique. Before the clinical years came a stint as research assistant at Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, a hospital research environment rather than a working IVF bench. Read together, the two set the order of things: the discipline habits of record-keeping, repeat-checking and handling anomalies were formed in that research setting and then applied to patient material.

Moving from clinic laboratories into a multi-site group lab is a change of scale, not of craft. A group laboratory runs a heavier daily retrieval load, documented protocols and internal audits, and the deputy director now sits on the side of that system that reviews process, trains staff and monitors the culture and cryopreservation inventory.

Clinical Expertise

• IVF laboratory operations: receiving eggs after retrieval, stripping the surrounding cumulus cells to read maturity, preparing sperm, running the chosen fertilisation method and logging development day by day. This is the core duty of the embryologist and where the career began, at the two clinic centers.
• Embryology and culture: growing embryos to cleavage or blastocyst stage and judging pace, fragmentation and morphology, so the treating physician has a basis for deciding transfer versus freeze.
• Gamete and embryo cryopreservation: carrying out vitrification and assessing survival after thaw, which depends on procedural consistency and continuous equipment monitoring as much as on the freezing step itself.
• Biotechnology-level manipulation: graduate work at the cell and molecular level maps onto the fine manual control needed for micromanipulation, specimen handling and the steps that feed into genetic screening.
• Laboratory technical management: at deputy director level the scope widens to process review, staff training, and oversight of culture systems and the cryopreservation inventory.
• Research training background: the earlier hospital research role brings the methodological habit of recording conditions and results so a batch can be compared against the ones before it.

Why Choose Yang

A management seat held by a bench embryologist. Deputy laboratory director is a supervisory title, but it was reached by promotion from the embryologist role rather than filled from outside. When a cycle underperforms on fertilisation or development, the person accountable for reviewing that day’s handling conditions is the same person who performed comparable work at the bench.

Two clinic laboratories before the group lab. USOON Fertility Center and Chi Hong Liu Fertility Center both sit inside the OB/GYN clinic model of assisted reproduction in Taipei, each with its own setup and volume. Experience across independent units gives a working comparison of how the same technique behaves under different resources and staffing.

Graduate science training behind the routine. The decision-making at a culture bench rests on cell-level judgment and steady hands, and the graduate degree from the College of Science and Engineering speaks directly to that. A manager who can describe technique in process-and-condition terms is useful when a case needs to be discussed with an outside screening laboratory.

Prior research exposure. The Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital research assistant post came before the clinical embryo work. Research settings instil documentation, re-checking and how to handle an out-of-range result, which is the same standard a quality-focused clinical lab runs on.

Professional Affiliations

Education: Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees from the College of Science and Engineering, National Dong Hwa University. Experience: embryologist at USOON Fertility Center and at Chi Hong Liu Fertility Center in Taipei, research assistant at Hualien Tzu Chi Hospital, and currently Deputy Laboratory Director at NUWA Lab.

Suitable For

Patients asking who handles their eggs and embryos: in a group laboratory the material passes through the embryologists, and a deputy director promoted from that bench is the clearest answer to who is responsible at the difficult steps and for reviewing them.

Egg and embryo freezing for a deferred pregnancy: freezing and thaw survival turn on repeatable handling and monitoring, both under the deputy director’s remit, which matters most for long-storage egg freezing and fertility-preservation cases.

A cycle result that needs laboratory-side review: when fertilisation or development falls short of expectation, the culture conditions, handling records and specimen processing have to be traced layer by layer, and the laboratory manager is the role that actually runs that check.

Repeated retrievals building up an embryo cohort: accumulating embryos across several cycles requires every batch to be logged and compared against the last, which is a laboratory-and-clinic information handoff the management layer owns.

Readiness to have lab specifications explained: research-trained staff tend to describe work in process and condition language, an advantage for anyone consulting who wants to understand what their eggs or embryos go through inside the lab.