Louise Tsi Chow Election Year 2014 McCallum Basic Health Sciences Building
Room 510, 1918 University Blvd.
Birmingham, AL 35294-0005, U.S.A. Tel: (205) 975-8300 / Fax:
Current Positions
Professor, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
Education
BS in Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University (1965)
PhD in Chemistry, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) (1973)
Professional Experience
Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco (1973-74)
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory: Research Fellow, Electron Microscopy Section (1975-76); Staff Investigator (1976-77); Senior Staff Investigator (1977-79); Senior Scientist with Tenure (1979-84)
University of Rochester: Associate Professor with Tenure (1984-89); Professor (1989-93), Department of Biochemistry
Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics Department, University of Alabama at Birmingham (1993-present)
Specialties
Molecular Virology & Biochemistry
Awards and Honors
Top score (丙組), 1961 Taiwan Nationwide College Entrance Examination
1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine awarded for a collaborative work, the discovery of RNA splicing (Cell 12: 1-8, 1977), on which周芷is the first author.
Chinese-American Engineers and Scientists Association of Southern California Award for Outstanding Achievement in Biochemistry and Genetic Science, Los Angeles (1994)
Mirabella 1000 Leading Women of the 1990's (1994)
UAB Presidential Achievement Award (1995)
American College of Physicians Medal, "in recognition of contribution to human welfare through distinguished achievement in the science of medicine" (1996)
Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA (Foreign Associate) (2012)
Dean's Award for Excellence in Research, UAB School of Medicine (2012)
National Taiwan University Department of Biochemical Science and Technology: Distinguished Achievement by an Alumna of the Department (2012)
National Taiwan University President's Award: "Distinguished Alumna in Science; Outstanding Example for Society", Year 101 of the Republic of China (2012)
University of Alabama at Birmingham, President's Medalist (2012)
Fellow, American Academy of Microbiology (2013)
Anderson Family Endowed Chair in Medical Education, Research and Patient Care in the School of Medicine (2013-)
Distinguished Professor of University of Alabama at Birmingham (2020)