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The native form of this personal name is Chiu Wah. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
Wah Chiu
Born (1947-06-05) 5 June 1947 (age 77)
Hong Kong
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Scientific career
FieldsBiophysics
InstitutionsUniversity of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese趙華
Simplified Chinese赵华
Hanyu PinyinZhào Huá
Yale RomanizationChiuh Wàh

Wah Chiu (Chinese: 趙華) is a Hong Kong-born American biophysicist, currently the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Chair Professor in the department of bioengineering, department of microbiology and immunology and the Photon Science Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. He is a Stanford Bio-X affiliated Faculty.[1] He was formerly the Distinguished Service Professor and the Alvin Romansky Chair Professor at Baylor College of Medicine[2][3] where he was the founding director of the National Center for Biomolecular Imaging,[4] and has been active in the new cryo-EM techniques allowing much higher-resolution structures of large molecular complexes such as viruses [5][6][7] and chaperonin.[8][9]

Biography

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Chiu was born in Hong Kong, and attended Pui Ching Middle School.[10] He moved to the U.S. to study at University of California, Berkeley, where he received both his B.S. (1969) and Ph.D. (1975). He was elected an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 2008 and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2012.[11] He has also received several honors including the Distinguished Science Award from the Microscopy Society of America[12] and the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland in 2014.[13]

References

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  1. ^ "Wah Chiu". stanford.edu. Retrieved September 1, 2017.
  2. ^ "Wah Chiu". bcm.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  3. ^ "Wah Chiu". bcm.edu. Retrieved April 22, 2017.
  4. ^ "National Center for Biomolecular Imaging".
  5. ^ ML Baker; CF Hryc; Q Zhang; W Wu; J Jakana; C Haas-Pettingell; PA Afonine; PD Adams; JA King; W Jiang; W Chiu (2014). "Validated near-atomic resolution structure of bacteriophage epsilon15 derived from cryo-EM and modeling". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA. 110 (30): 12301–12306. doi:10.1073/pnas.1309947110. PMC 3725109. PMID 23840063.
  6. ^ ML Baker; M Chen; PR Baldwin; SJ Ludtke; W Chiu (2015). "Modeling Protein Structure in Macromolecular Assemblies at Near Atomic Resolutions". Microscopy and Microanalysis. 21 (S3): 541–542. Bibcode:2015MiMic..21S.541B. doi:10.1017/S1431927615003505.
  7. ^ Hryc, Corey F.; Chen, Dong-Hua; Afonine, Pavel V.; Jakana, Joanita; Wang, Zhao; Haase-Pettingell, Cameron; Jiang, Wen; Adams, Paul D.; King, Jonathan A. (2017-03-07). "Accurate model annotation of a near-atomic resolution cryo-EM map". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (12): 3103–3108. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114.3103H. doi:10.1073/pnas.1621152114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5373346. PMID 28270620.
  8. ^ Zhang, Junjie; Baker, Matthew L.; Schröder, Gunnar F.; Douglas, Nicholai R.; Reissmann, Stefanie; Jakana, Joanita; Dougherty, Matthew; Fu, Caroline J.; Levitt, Michael (January 2010). "Mechanism of folding chamber closure in a group II chaperonin". Nature. 463 (7279): 379–383. Bibcode:2010Natur.463..379Z. doi:10.1038/nature08701. ISSN 0028-0836. PMC 2834796. PMID 20090755.
  9. ^ Roh, Soung-Hun; Hryc, Corey F.; Jeong, Hyun-Hwan; Fei, Xue; Jakana, Joanita; Lorimer, George H.; Chiu, Wah (2017-07-14). "Subunit conformational variation within individual GroEL oligomers resolved by Cryo-EM". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114 (31): 8259–8264. Bibcode:2017PNAS..114.8259R. doi:10.1073/pnas.1704725114. ISSN 0027-8424. PMC 5547627. PMID 28710336.
  10. ^ "贝勒医学院赵华教授来生化与细胞所作学术报告". Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences. 2012-09-12. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  11. ^ "趙華". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 2018-05-03.
  12. ^ "Awards & Scholarships". Microscopy Society of America. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
  13. ^ "Helsingin yliopisto - filosofisen tiedekunnan promootio 2014". www.helsinki.fi. Retrieved 2018-10-07.
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