About Dr. Kong

江建文 Kien-Voon Kong  Professor

化學系 Department of Chemistry

國立臺灣大學  National Taiwan University

Office: B577 Chemistry Building

Tel: 02-3366-1175

Email: kvkong@ntu.edu.tw

Research Interests

• Chemistry of metals in nanomedicine - Design of various classes of nanomaterials and organometallic compounds, and studying their mechanism of action in biological systems, leading to novel platforms for the next generation of molecular therapeutics. The designs provide a platform that can be used for translational research of diseases including cancer and infectious diseases.
• Chemistry of metals in biosensing and bioimaging - Design of novel sensing and imaging probes for Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) sensing and functional photoaocustic imaging which can potentially be used as screening and diagnostic tools in clinical research.

Honors and Awards

• 2024 NSTC (National Science & Technology Council) Excellent Young Scholar
• 2023 Royal Society of Chemistry's 2023 Outstanding Reviewers

• 2022 Short-listed Finalist 1of 4, for The NSTC "Ta-You Wu" Memorial Award
• 2022 Young Chemist Award (CSLT, Chemical Society Taiwan), 2022
• 2021 MOST (Ministry of Science & Technology) Excellent Young Scholar
• 2019 National Taiwan University (NTU) Excellent Teaching Award
• 2015 Outstanding Research Award for New Faculty, Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University
• 2009 Postgraduate Full Scholarship: NUS Research Scholarship
• 2004 Undergraduate Full Scholarship: Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange (KLSE), Malaysia Scholarship

Education 

• English College Johore Bahru (Maktab Sultan Abu Bakar MSAB)

• B.Sc. (Hons), 2004, University of Malaya
• Ph.D., 2009, National University of Singapore

Career 

• Production Engineer, Thosco Treatech Sdn Bhd, 2004

• Chemist, Intelchem Industries Sdn Bhd, 2004
• RadioChemist, Singapore Radiopharmaceuticals, 2009-2009
• Scientist, Institute Materials Research and Engineering, 2009-2011
• Research Fellow, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, 2011-2014
• Senior Research Fellow, Singapore Bioimaging Consortium, 2014-2015
• National Taiwan University, Assistant Professor, August 2015 - July 2020
• National Taiwan University, Associate Professor, August 2020 - July 2025
• National Taiwan University, Professor, August 2025 - Present

Scientific Service

1.  Reviewer for

• ACSNano
• ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
• Biosensors and Bioelectronics
• Chemical Society Reviews 
  
• Diagnostics 
  
• Organometallics
• International Journal of Thermophysics
• Journal of Molecular and Engineering Materials
  
• Nanomaterials
• Nanoscale
• PNAS
• Sensors
• Surface Science
• Theranostics

2.  Expert Evaluator for the PRESTIGE Marie Curie post-doc fellowships Programme (France)

Book Chapter

Next Generation Point-of-care Biomedical Sensors Technologies for Cancer Diagnosis. Chapter 15: SERS Biosensing and Bioimaging: Design and Applications in Cancer Diagnostics. Singapore: Springer. Jun, 2017

Handbook of Nanosensors: Materials and Technological Applications: Chapter of 14: The Plasmon-Enhanced Nanosensor Design and Experimental Schemes for Biosensing and Bioimaging. Springer Nature Switzerland. 2024, 461-501.

Teaching