Andrew H.-J. Wang 2014 International Biophysics Congress

Andrew H.-J. Wang

Prof. Andrew H.-J. Wang was educated in Taiwan with B.S. (1967) and M.S. (1970) degrees, both from the Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan University. He obtained the Ph.D. degree from the Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois in 1974. He was Professor of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Chemistry at the University of Illinois (Urbana), during 1988-2000. Dr. Wang served as Vice President of Academia Sinica and is currently Distinguished Research Fellow of the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taipei. He is an outstanding research scholar, as evidenced by over 440 of his scientific papers that have appeared in top journals of the field. Dr. Wang has also actively been involved in the advancement of sciences. He served as Editor for European J. Biochem., on Advisory Board of Nucleic Acids Research. He has been Council Member of Human Proteomics Organization (HUPO). As the President of three societies (Taiwan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology till 2004 (a member of IUBMB), Biophysical Society of ROC (a member of IUPAB) and Taiwan Proteomics Society (a member of AOHUPO)), he has successfully organized several major international conferences in Taipei. Dr. Wang’s numerous achievements were recognized by his election as Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow of Third World Academy of Sciences and President of FAOBMB, etc. His research interests include structural proteomics, drug discovery including therapeutic antibody developement, synchrotron crystallography, structure-function relationship of enzymes, membrane proteins and DNA-interacting proteins