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Dr. Cheng-Wen Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. He obtained his
MD degree from the Medical School of the National Taiwan University
and received his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the Case-Western University
in 1968. After post doctoral studies at Cornell and Yale Universities,
he began his teaching and research career at the Albert Einstein
Medical College in1972, where he served as assistant, associate
and full professor. He was a guest lecturer at Pasteur Institute
in Paris in 1978. He was a chair professors at SUNY at Stony Brook
between 1979 to 1989.
In 1989, with a strong desire
to serve his country, Dr. Wu resigned from the Chair Professorship
at the SUNY at Stony Brook and returned to Taiwan to start the Institute
of Biomedical Science (IBMS) of Academia Sinica and to serve as
its first Director. Under his leadership, IBMS has become one of
the outstanding and competitive institutes in the areas of biomedical
research. In 1995, Dr. Wu was appointed as the founding president
of the National Heath Research Institute, a new organization supported
by a government sponsored foundation. The Institute consists of
seven branches of intramural researches ranging from Medical Biotechnology
development to diseases prevention to treatments, and to health
policy. It has also supported extramural researches over 70 Centers
of Excellence and Outstanding Laboratories in Taiwan.
Dr. Wu has published 176
papers in refereed international journals. He spent more than 30
years in the studies of biomedical sciences. Dr. Wu is at hie apex
of career development and is considered as a leading scientist with
worldwide reputation. His chief accomplishments are manifested by
the awards and honors received, including: Sigma Xi Award (1969),
NIH Special Fellowship & Career Development Awards, Irma Hirschl
Scientific Award (1977), French-American Award (1977), Catacosina
Professor Cancer Research Award , Member of Academia Sinica (1984)
, Follow of American Institute of Chemistry, Guggenheim Fellow (1988),
Honorary member of Society of Chemical Genetics (1998), Science
& Technology Award of the Taiwanese-American Foundation (1993),
Honorary Professor of Beijing University and Outstanding Achievement
Award of the Chinese American Professional Association(1998).
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