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院士簡歷


Division of Life Sciences


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Louise Tsi Chow 周 芷
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:
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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)
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Chemistry Department, Caltech (1974-75)
  • 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)