Andrew H.-j. Wang

Biography

 Professor Andrew Wang is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biological Chemistry at Academia Sinica. After receiving a Masters degree in chemistry from National Taiwan University in 1970, he gained a PhD in chemistry at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in 1974. He then held various research positions at Massachusetts Institute of Technology until 1988. From 1988 to 2000, he served as a faculty member of the Department of Cell and Structural Biology at the UIUC. In 2006, Andrew was appointed to his current position as a vice president of Academia Sinica. Andrew is widely-recognized for his use of interdisciplinary approaches to study complex biological systems such as structural enzymology. He became an Academician in 2000, and has been made a Fellow of several international institutions such as the Third World Academy of Sciences in 2005, the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1988, the American Institute of Chemists in 1987, and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology in 1987. Andrew was also the recipient of the Taiwanese-American Foundation’s Science and Engineering Achievement Award in 2007. An active figure in advancing the development of sciences, Andrew serves as a council member of Human Proteomics Organization (HUPO) and has held presidency of three societies - the Taiwan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2001 - 2004), the Biophysical Society of ROC (2001 - 2007) and the Taiwan Proteomics Society (2003 - 2006). He is president elect of the FAOBMB.

Research Interest

 Structural proteomics, anticancer drugs, x-ray crystallography, NMR and molecular design.