Ray Wu Explained
Ray Jui Wu |
Birth Name: | Jui Wu |
Birth Date: | 14 August 1928 |
Birth Place: | Beijing, Republic of China |
Death Place: | Ithaca, New York, U.S. |
Other Names: | Wu Rui, Wu Jui |
Nationality: | American |
Alma Mater: | University of Pennsylvania |
Thesis Title: | Studies on the Mechanisms of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis |
Thesis Year: | 1955 |
Doctoral Advisor: | D. Wright Wilson |
Doctoral Students: | Jack W. Szostak |
Ray Jui Wu (14 August 1928 – 10 February 2008) was a Chinese-born American geneticist and served as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University.[1]
In 1970, Wu created the first approach for DNA sequencing,[2] earlier than the Frederick Sanger's method in 1975 [3] and Walter Gilbert's chemical procedure in 1977.[4] Wu's contributions on DNA sequencing are fundamental to the general sequencing methods today.[5]
Biography
Wu was the son of Hsien and Daisy Yen Wu, both biologists who pioneered biochemical studies in China.[6] Wu was born in Beijing in China; his ancestral hometown was Fuzhou of Fujian Province. Wu was educated in the United States and obtained his Ph.D. in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955.[7]
Wu was a pioneer in DNA sequencing[8] [9] and genetic engineering, and is regarded as one of the founding fathers of plant genetic engineering.
Wu also was an active educator, and created the CUSBEA (China-US Biochemistry Examination and Application). In 1999, at Cornell, Wu donated US $500,000 to establish the Ray Wu Graduate Fellowship in Molecular Biology and Genetics to support biology graduate students.[10]
Wu spent most of his scientific career at Cornell. Wu was an Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and a Foreign Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.[11] Wu's former student Jack W. Szostak was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.[12]
Ray Wu Memorial Fund
The Ray Wu Memorial Fund (RWMF) is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization. RWMF administers the annual Ray Wu Prize for Excellence in Life Sciences that is established to inspire Asia's most promising young Ph.D. students to become future leaders in life sciences.
References
- Web site: Ray Wu, Cornell's acclaimed pioneer of genetic engineering and developer of widely grown, hardy rice, dies at 79 . 2023-03-27 . Cornell Chronicle . en.
- Wu . Ray . 1970-08-14 . Nucleotide sequence analysis of DNA: I. Partial sequence of the cohesive ends of bacteriophage λ and 186 DNA . Journal of Molecular Biology . en . 51 . 3 . 501–521 . 10.1016/0022-2836(70)90004-5 . 0022-2836 . 4321727.
- Sanger . F. . Coulson . A. R. . 1975-05-25 . A rapid method for determining sequences in DNA by primed synthesis with DNA polymerase . Journal of Molecular Biology . en . 94 . 3 . 441–448 . 10.1016/0022-2836(75)90213-2 . 1100841 . 0022-2836.
- Maxam . A M . Gilbert . W . February 1977 . A new method for sequencing DNA. . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences . en . 74 . 2 . 560–564 . 10.1073/pnas.74.2.560 . 0027-8424 . 392330 . 265521 . 1977PNAS...74..560M . free .
- Web site: Geneticist Ray Wu dies . 2023-01-12 . The Scientist Magazine® . en.
- 曹 (Cao) . 育 (Yu) . 屈 (Qu) . 宝坤 (Baokun) . 最早在国内从事生物化学研究的女学者——吴严彩韵 . 中国科技史料 . 7 March 2008 . 4 October 2020 . Daisy Yen Wu—The First Woman Scholar in China Engaged in Biochemical Research . Institute of the History of Natural Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences . https://web.archive.org/web/20120910021647/http://news.sciencenet.cn:80/htmlnews/20083717459705203031.html . 10 September 2012 . Beijing . Chinese . Chinese Library Classification Number K826.1.
- http://www.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2008214102012343201177.html CUSBEA创始人吴瑞因病去世 享年79岁 (Founder of CUSBEA Ray Wu dies at 79)
- Onaga, Lisa A. "Ray Wu as Fifth Business: Deconstructing Collective Memory in the History of DNA Sequencing." Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 46 (June 2014): 1–14. doi:10.1016/j.shpsc.2013.12.006
- Xue . Yu . Wang . Yongbo . Shen . Hui . 2016-07-01 . Ray Wu, fifth business or father of DNA sequencing? . Protein & Cell . en . 7 . 7 . 467–470 . 10.1007/s13238-016-0271-8 . 1674-8018 . 4930765 . 27301256.
- http://www.news.cornell.edu/Chronicle/99/12.2.99/Wu_gift.html Molecular biologist Ray Wu's gift will endow a graduate fellowship
- Ray Wu, as remembered by a former student . 10.1007/s11427-009-0023-6 . 2009 . Szostak . Jack . Science in China Series C: Life Sciences . 52 . 2 . 108–110 . 19277516 . 22028369 .
- http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/2009/ The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2009
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