Tang K. Tang

Short description: Biomedical researcher

Tang K. Tang

Official portrait, 2022

Vice President of the Academia Sinica

Incumbent

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) is a Taiwanese geneticist and biomedical researcher who is currently the vice president of the Academia Sinica.

## Contents

* 1 Education
* 2 Academic career
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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]

## References

1. ↑ "TANG K. TANG". Academia Sinica. https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n/show&id=782.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Dr.Tang,Tang K.唐堂博士 HOME 首頁". https://www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw/tang-tang/.
3. ↑ "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.
4. ↑ "Tang K. Tang". https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3660-0695.
5. ↑ Chung, Jake. "Top research institute selects 19 new members". Taipei Times. https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2022/07/08/2003781372.
6. ↑ 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.
7. ↑ "Tang K. Tang Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". https://patents.justia.com/inventor/tang-k-tang.

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