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院士簡歷


Division of Life Sciences


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King-Wai Yau 游景威
Election Year 2022
Department of Neuroscience, Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine, Room905A Preclinical Teaching Building, 725 North Wolfe. St., Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
Tel: (410)955-1260 / Fax: (410)955-1948
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Current Positions
  • Professor of Neuroscience
  • Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Education
  • AB in physics, Princeton University: University Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Xi 1971
  • PhD in neurobiology, Harvard University, 1975
Professional Experience
  • 1976-1979 Research Fellow, Neurobiology, Stanford University School of Medicine
  • 1979-1980 Research Fellow, Physiological Laboratory, Cambridge University, England, UK
  • 1980-1982 Assistant Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, UTMB Galveston
  • 1982-1985 Associate Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, UTMB Galveston
  • 1985-1986 Professor, Physiology & Biophysics, UTMB Galveston
  • 1986-2004 Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)
  • 1986- Professor, Neuroscience and Ophthalmology, Johns Hopkins University Sch of Med
Specialties
  • Neuroscience, Ophthalmology(Vision Physiology)
Awards and Honors
  • AP Giannini Fellow, AP Giannini Foundation, 1975 – 76; Dean's Fellow, Stanford University School of Medicine, 1976 – 78; Alfred P Sloan Fellow, Alfred P Sloan Foundation, 1978 – 80; Visiting Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge University, England, UK, 1980 – 81; Rank Prize in Optoelectronics, Rank Prize Funds, England, UK, 1980; Research Career Development Award, NIH, 1981 – 86; Distinguished Faculty Research Award, UTMB Galveston, 1986; MERIT Award, National Eye Institute (NEI), NIH, 1992 – 02; Friedenwald Award, Assoc for Research in Vision & Ophthalmology (ARVO), 1993; Alcon Award in Vision Research, Alcon Research Institute (ARI), 1994; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Elected, 1995; Magnes Prize, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, ISRAEL, 1996; Teacher of the Year, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 2004; Ruth and Milton Steinbach Award, R & H Steinbach Foundation, 2004; Alcon Award in Vision Research, ARI (second time, and maximum number), 2005; Balazs Prize, International Society for Eye Research (ISER), 2006; António Champalimaud Vision Award, PORTUGAL (Inaugural Research Award, nicknamed “Nobel Prize in Vision”), 2008; Member, National Academy of Sciences, USA Elected, 2010; CNIB Chanchlani Global Vision Research Award, CANADA, 2012; Alexander Hollaender Award in Biophysics, National Academy of Sciences, USA, 2013; RRF Paul Kayser International Award for Retinal Research (ISER), 2016; Daniel Nathans Scientific Innovator Award, Johns Hopkins U School of Medicine 2017; Member, National Academy of Medicine, USA Elected, 2018; Helen Keller Prize for Vision Research, Helen Keller & BrightFocus Foundations, 2019; Beckman-Argyros Vision Award, Arnold & Mabel Beckman Foundation, 2019.