Tang K. Tang

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Short description: Biomedical researcher
Tang K. Tang
唐堂
Official portrait, 2022
Vice President of the Academia Sinica
Assumed office
21 December 2022
Serving with Mei-Yin Chou and Chin-Shing Huang
PresidentJames C. Liao
Preceded byFu-Tong Liu
Personal details
EducationTunghai University (BS)
National Yang-Ming University (MS)
Yale University (MA, PhD)

Tang Kent Tang (Chinese: 唐堂) is a Taiwanese geneticist and biomedical researcher who is currently the vice president of the Academia Sinica.

Education

Tang studied biology at Tunghai University from 1974 to 1978, graduating with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree, and earned a Master of Science (M.S.) from National Yang-Ming University in microbiology and immunology 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, both 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]

After receiving his doctorate, Tang completed postdoctoral research at Yale in 1989.[4]

Academic career

After receiving his doctorate, Tang became a researcher at Academia Sinica. In 2022 Tang was elected a Member of the Academia Sinica, where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.[2][5]

He also is a member of the Program in Molecular Medicine, a collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica.[6]

He co-holds patents with Academia Sinica research colleagues.[7]

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