Kenneth Kun-Yu Wu 伍焜玉 Election Year 1994 National Health Research Institutes
35, Keyan Rd., Zhunan Town
Miaoli County 350, Taiwan Tel: (037) 246-166#37501 / Fax: (037) 587-408
Education
M.D., National Taiwan University, College of Medicine
M.S., Yale University School of Medicine
Ph.D., University of London
Professional Experience
Professor and Director, Division of Hematology, University of Texas-Houston Medical School at Houston (1983-2006)
UT MD Anderson Cancer Center Hematology Consultant (1983-2006)
Director, General Clinical Research Center, University of Texas Medical School at Houston (1985-1991)
Director, Vascular Biology Research Center, University of Texas Medical School at Houston (1988-2006)
Roy M. and Phyllis Gough Huffington Chair, University of Texas Health Science Center (1992-2006)
Distinguished Fellow and Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica (1997-1999)
Associate Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas (2002-2006)
Professor, Department of Bonemarrow Transplantation, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center (2004-2006)
Distinguished Investigator and President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan (2006-2012)
Professor Emeritus, Division of Hematology, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, Texas (2006 to present)
Distinguished Chair Professor, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan (2007 to present)
Jin-Dui Ho Chair, National Tsing-Hua University, College of Life Sciences, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2012 to present)
Distinguished Professor, China Medical University Taichung, Taiwan (2012 to present)
Honorary Investigator, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan (2014 to present)
Adjunct Professor, Johns Hopkins University Medical School, Baltimore, Maryland (2018 to present)
Specialties
Vascular Biology, Hematology, Oncology, Prostaglandin biosynthesis and regulation
Awards and Honors
Member, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute Advisory Council, NIH, U.S.A. (1988-1992)
Outstanding Alumni Award Lectureship, National Taiwan University, College of Medicine, 40th Anniversary (1985)
Member, Association of American Physicians (1997)
Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation (1982)
Sanofi Prize, International Society of Thrombosis and Hematosis (1997)
Academician, Academia Sinica, Taiwan (1994)
President's Scholar Award, Univ. of Texas Houston (2001)
Member, European Academy of Science (2004)
Fellow, The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS) (2010)
Doctorate of Philosophy, Honoris Causa, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan (2010)
Distinguished Emeritus Member, American Society of Hematology, U.S.A. (2012)