Wu Cheng-wen (biochemist)
Taiwanese biochemist (born 1938)
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Wu Cheng-wen (Chinese: 吳成文; pinyin: Wú Chéngwén; born 19 June 1938) is a Taiwanese biochemist. He is the founding president of National Health Research Institutes, serving from 1996 to 2005.
Wu Cheng-wen | |
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吳成文 | |
| Born | 19 June 1938 |
| Education | National Taiwan University (MD) Case Western Reserve University (PhD) |
Wu was elected as an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1984.[1][2] He is a 1988 Guggenheim fellow,[3] as well as a 2011 recipient of the Presidential Science Prize 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.
