Besides its efforts in finding treatments for Pompe disease, the Academia Sinica's Institute of Biomedical Sciences, led by Chen, is also working with universities and medical centers on research programs on diseases caused by non-single-gene defects and affected by environmental factors--including diabetes, bipolar disorder, early-onset hypertension, degenerative arthritis of the hand, and obesity, as well as 12 types of adverse drug reactions.
除了龐貝氏症外，在陳垣崇帶領下，中研院生醫所還分別與國內各大醫學中心合作，研究包括糖尿病、躁鬱症、年輕型高血壓、手部退化性關節炎、肥胖等非單一基因引起、外加環境因素的疾病，以及 12 種藥物不良反應計畫。