Tang K. Tang
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Tang K. Tang | |
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唐堂 | |
 Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Vice President of Academia Sinica | |
| Assumed office 21 December 2022 Serving with Mei-Yin Chou and Chin-Shing Huang | |
| President | James C. Liao |
| Preceded by | Fu-Tong Liu |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Tunghai University (BS) National Yang-Ming University (MS) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
Tang Kent Tang (Chinese: 唐堂; pinyin: Táng Táng) is a Taiwanese geneticist, cellular biologist, and biomedical researcher who has been a vice president of Academia Sinica since 2022. He is best known for his research on centrosomes.
Education
Tang graduated from Tunghai University with a B.S. in biology in 1978 and earned an M.S. in microbiology and immunology from National Yang-Ming University in 1983.[1] He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning an M.A. and his Ph.D. in human genetics in 1988 from Yale University.[2] His doctoral dissertation, completed under geneticist Edward J. Benz Jr. and pathologist Vincent Marchesi, was titled, "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1".[3]
Academic career
After receiving his doctorate, Tang was a postdoctoral fellow of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine from 1988 to 1989.[4] At the end of his postdoctoral fellowship, he became a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica, where he later served as an associate research fellow, research fellow, and distinguished research fellow.[5]
In 2022, Tang was elected a member of Academia Sinica. He remains a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.[2][6]
He also is a member of the Program in Molecular Medicine, a collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica.[7]
He co-holds patents with Academia Sinica research colleagues.[8]
References
- ↑ "TANG K. TANG". Academia Sinica. https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=782.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dr.Tang,Tang K.唐堂博士 HOME 首頁". https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/tang-tang/.
- ↑ "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1". Proquest. 1988. https://www.proquest.com/openview/5ac3eb068fd92fc3460642036709439b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.
- ↑ "Tang K. Tang". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3660-0695.
- ↑ 中央通訊社 (2022-12-21). "中研院生命科學組副院長交接 院士唐堂接任 | 生活" (in zh-Hant-TW). https://www.cna.com.tw/news/ahel/202212210132.aspx.
- ↑ Chung, Jake. "Top research institute selects 19 new members". Taipei Times. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/07/08/2003781372.
- ↑ An, Hsiao-Lung; Kuo, Hung-Chih; Tang, Tang K. (2022). "Modeling Human Primary Microcephaly With hiPSC-Derived Brain Organoids Carrying CPAP-E1235V Disease-Associated Mutant Protein". Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology 10. doi:10.3389/fcell.2022.830432. ISSN 2296-634X. PMID 35309908.
- ↑ "Tang K. Tang Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". https://patents.justia.com/inventor/tang-k-tang.
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