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Wen-Hwa Lee

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Wen-Hwa Lee (Chinese: 李文華; born 1 June 1950) is a Taiwanese molecular biologist.

Education and career

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Lee earned his bachelor's degree from National Taiwan Normal University, master's degrees from National Taiwan University,[1] then completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley in 1981.[1][2] Lee began his teaching career at the University of California, San Diego in 1984, as an assistant professor, and was promoted to associate professor in 1990.[1] Between 1991 and 2003, he was a member of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, serving as Alice P. McDermott Distinguished University Chair.[1][3] Lee then moved to the University of California, Irvine, where he held the Donald Bren Professorship in Biological Chemistry.[1][2] Lee returned to Taiwan in 2014, to assume a professorship at China Medical University.[1] He concurrently served as CMU president from 2014 to 2019,[1][4] between the tenures of Huang Jong-tsun and Mien-Chie Hung.

Lee is one of four cofounding scientists of GeneTex, alongside Joel B. Baseman, C. Kent Osborne, and Eva Y.-H. P. Lee.[5]

Lee was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 1994,[1] and awarded fellowship of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2012,[6][7] the United States National Academy of Inventors in 2014,[8][9] and The World Academy of Sciences in 2018.[10]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Wen-Hwa Lee". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b "Wen-Hwa Lee". University of California, Irvine. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. ^ Lee, Wen-Hwa; Boyer, Thoms G. (December 2001). "BRCA1 and BRCA2 in breast cancer". The Lancet. 358. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(01)07018-0.
  4. ^ "Lee, Wen-Hwa". Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica.
  5. ^ "GeneTex's Founding Scientists". GeneTex. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  6. ^ "Congratulations to Dr. Wen-Hwa Lee for being elected as fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science". Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica. 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  7. ^ "AAAS Members Elected as Fellows". American Association for the Advancement of Science. 30 November 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  8. ^ "Wen-Hwa Lee". National Academy of Inventors. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  9. ^ "Congratulations to President Chi-Huey Wong & Dr. Wen-Hwa Lee for being elected as the 2014 Fellows of National Academy of Inventors in USA". Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica. 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  10. ^ "LEE Wen-Hwa". The World Academy of Sciences. Retrieved 12 September 2023.