Yuh-Nung Jan Election Year 1998 Howard Hughes Medical Institute
School of Medicine, RH484E
Univ. of California, San Francisco
1550 4th Street, Rock Hall
San Francisco, CA 94143-0725, U.S.A. Tel: (415) 476-8747; (415) 476-8752 / Fax: (415) 476-5774
Current Positions
Professor, Univ. of California, San Francisco
Education
B.S., National Taiwan University (1967)
M.S., California Institute of Technology (1970)
Ph.D., California Institute of Technology (1974)
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, California Institute of Technology (1974-1977)
Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University (1977-1979)
Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, University of California, San Francisco (1979-1985)
Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (1984—)
Professor, University of California, San Francisco (1985—)
Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Molecular Physiology, UCSF (1999—)
Specialties
Neuroscience
Awards and Honors
McKnight Scholar Award (1978-1981)
W. Alden Spencer Award and Lectureship, Columbia University (1988)
38th Faculty Lecturer, University of California, San Francisco (1995)
Elected Member, U.S. National Academy of Sciences (1996)
Academician, Academia Sinica, R.O.C. (1998)
Harvey Lecturer (1998)
The Steve W. Kuffler Lecturer, Harvard Medical School (1999)
K.S. Cole Award, Biophysics Society (2004)
Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology (2006)
SCBA Presidential Award (2006)
Elected Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2007)
Ralph W. Gerard Prize, Society for Neuroscience (2009)
Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2010)
Albert and Ellen Grass Lecture, Society for Neuroscience (2010)