Shen Meng-ru

Shen Meng-ru (; born 1966) is a Taiwanese physiologist and academic who has served as the 18th president of National Cheng Kung University (NCKU) since 2023. He is a researcher in genomic medicine, drug development, molecular biology, and cellular physiology.

Early life and education Shen was born in Tainan in 1966, and graduated from National Tainan First Senior High School. He attended medical school at Kaohsiung Medical University, earning his Doctor of Medicine (M.D.) in 1993. He then completed graduate studies in England at the University of Oxford, where he earned his Doctor of Philosophy (D.Phil.) in physiology in 2002. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Volume-regulatory mechanisms in human cervical cancer cells," and was supervised by Oxford professor Clive Ellory.

Career Since 1998, Chen has been an attending physician in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of National Cheng Kung University.