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Wu Cheng-wen (biochemist)

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Wu Cheng-wen
吳成文
Born (1938-06-19) 19 June 1938 (age 86)
Taihoku, Taiwan, Empire of Japan
NationalityRepublic of China

Wu Cheng-wen (Chinese: 吳成文; pinyin: Wú Chéngwén; born 19 June 1938) is a Taiwanese biochemist. He is the former founding president of National Health Research Institutes in 1996–2005.

Wu Was elected as an academician of Taiwan Academia Sinicain 1984.[1][2] He is a 1988 Guggenheim fellow,[3] as well as a 2011 recipient of the Presidential Science Prize [zh] in Life Sciences.[4][5]

Wu was the director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Biomedical Sciences,[6] and served on the Council of the Academia Sinica.[7] He was a professor of pharmacological sciences at Stony Brook University, and lived in Setauket, New York.[8] Currently he works as a special lecturer at National Yang-Ming University.

References

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  1. ^ "Cheng-Wen Wu 吳成文". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  2. ^ Lu, Meggie (29 January 2008). "Researcher named L'Oreal Laureate". Taipei Times. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  3. ^ "Cheng-Wen Wu". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Academician Cheng-Wen Wu's Personal Profiles". National Science and Technology Council. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  5. ^ "News ticker". Taiwan Today. 18 November 2011.
  6. ^ "Medical transplants". Taiwan Today. 1 October 1994. Retrieved 16 April 2024.
  7. ^ "The science of surgery". Taiwan Today. 1 November 2012.
  8. ^ Van Gelder, Lawrence (24 March 1985). "LONG ISLANDERS; STONY BROOK SCIENTIST, HONORED IN TAIWAN, INVESTIGATES THE GENE". The New York Times. Retrieved 18 April 2024.


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