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Andrew H. -j. Wang

Andrew H. -j. Wang MS, PhD

Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics
Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

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Wang earned a bachelor's and master's degree from National Taiwan University in 1967 and 1970, respectively. He then pursued a doctorate at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between 1974 and 1988 when he returned to UIUC as a faculty member. Wang returned to Taiwan in 2000 for a position at Academia Sinica. Wang is noted for his research into PTPN3-protein kinase 12 complex and has identified ICP11 as a DNA mimic protein.

Wang was elected a fellow of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and American Institute of Chemists in 1987. The next year, Wang was elected a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Wang's election as a member of Academia Sinica took place in 2000, and he became a fellow of The World Academy of Sciences in 2005.
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