Tang K. Tang
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National Yang-Ming University (MS)
Yale University (MA, PhD)
Tang K. Tang | |
|---|---|
| 唐堂 | |
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Vice President of Academia Sinica | |
| Assumed office 21 December 2022 | |
| President | James C. Liao |
| Preceded by | Fu-Tong Liu |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Tunghai University (BS) National Yang-Ming University (MS) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
Tang Kent Tang (Chinese: 唐堂; pinyin: Táng Táng) is a Taiwanese geneticist, cellular biologist, and biomedical researcher who has been a vice president of Academia Sinica since 2022. He is best known for his research on centrosomes.
Tang graduated from Tunghai University with a B.S. in biology in 1978 and earned an M.S. in microbiology and immunology from National Yang-Ming University in 1983.[1] He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning an M.A. and his Ph.D. in human genetics in 1988 from Yale University.[2] His doctoral dissertation, completed under geneticist Edward J. Benz Jr. and pathologist Vincent Marchesi, was titled, "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1".[3]
