Wah Chiu Explained

Birth Place:	Hong Kong
Birth Date:	5 Jun 1947
Field:	Biophysics
Alma Mater:	University of California, Berkeley
Workplaces:	University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University

Wah Chiu 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

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]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Wah Chiu . stanford.edu . September 1, 2017.
2. Web site: Wah Chiu . bcm.edu . April 22, 2017.
3. Web site: Wah Chiu . bcm.edu . April 22, 2017.
4. Web site: 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 . Validated near-atomic resolution structure of bacteriophage epsilon15 derived from cryo-EM and modeling . 2014 . Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA . 110 . 30 . 12301–12306 . 10.1073/pnas.1309947110. 23840063 . 3725109 . free .
6. ML Baker . M Chen . PR Baldwin . SJ Ludtke . W Chiu . Modeling Protein Structure in Macromolecular Assemblies at Near Atomic Resolutions . Microscopy and Microanalysis . 2015 . 21 . S3 . 541–542. 10.1017/S1431927615003505 . 2015MiMic..21S.541B . free .
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. 10.1073/pnas.1621152114. 28270620. 0027-8424. 5373346. 2017PNAS..114.3103H . free.
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. 10.1038/nature08701. 2834796. 0028-0836. 20090755. 2010Natur.463..379Z.
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. 10.1073/pnas.1704725114. 0027-8424. 5547627. 28710336. 2017PNAS..114.8259R . free.
10. Web site: 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. 2018-05-03.
11. Web site: 趙華. Academia Sinica. 2018-05-03.
12. Web site: Awards & Scholarships. Microscopy Society of America. 2018-10-07.
13. Web site: Helsingin yliopisto - filosofisen tiedekunnan promootio 2014. www.helsinki.fi. 2018-10-07.