PREVIOUS AWARDS

Academician Kun-Yu Wu's Personal Profiles

2015 Awardees

• Academician, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
• Professor emeritus, University of Texas Health Science
• Center, Houston, U.S.A.

Academic record

• M.D., National Taiwan University Medical School, Taipei, Taiwan
• M.S., Yale University Medical School, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
• Ph.D. , University of London, London, United Kingdom
• Doctorate of Philosophy, Honoris Causa, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan

Experience

• Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, U.S.A. (1974-1976)
• Associate Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. (1976-1981)
• Professor of Medicine, Rush Medical College, Chicago, IL, U.S.A. (1981-1983)
• Professor of Medicine and Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHSC), TX, U.S.A. (1983-2006)
• Director, General Clinical Research Center, UTHSC, TX, U.S.A. (1985-1991)
• Director, Vascular Biology Research Center, UTHSC, TX, U.S.A. (1988-2006)
• Visiting Professor, William Harvey Research Institute, London, U.K.
• Roy and Phyllis Gough Huffington Chair, UTHSC, TX, U.S.A. (1992-2006)
• Distinguished Fellow and Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan(1997-1999)
• Program Director, Frontier in Genomic Medicine Research, National Science Council, Taiwan(1998-1999)
• Associate Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine, UTHSC, TX, U.S.A. (2001-2006)
• Professor, University of Texas, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, U.S.A. (2004-2006)
• Distinguished Investigator and President, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan (2006-2012)
• Professor emeritus, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, U.S.A. (2006-present)
• Chair Professor, China Medical University, Taichung, Taiwan (2012-present)
• Hou Jindui Chair, National Tsing-Hua University College of Life Science, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (2012-present)

Grants, Honors and Awards

• Member, Neurological Disease Review Committee A, NINCDS, NIH, U.S.A. (1977-1981 )
• Elected Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation, U.S.A. (1982)
• Member, Hematology Study Section, NIH, U.S.A. (1983-1987)
• Member, NIH National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute Research Review Committee B, NIH, U.S.A. (1988-1992 )
• Elected as Academician, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan(1994)
• Proclamation of December 9, 1994 as Kenneth K. Wu, M.D. Day by Mayor Lanier of Houston, Texas, U.S.A. (1994 )
• Member, Hematology Subspecialty Board, American Board, U.S.A. (1994-1999 )
• Member, Advisory Council, NIH National Heart, Lung & Blood Institute, U.S.A. (1995-1998)
• Elected Member, Association of American Physicians, U.S.A. (1997)
• SANOFI Prize, Sanofi Association for Thrombosis Research and International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (1997)
• President’s Scholar Award, UT-Houston Health Science Center, U.S.A. (2000)
• Board of Director, American Board of Internal Medicine, U.S.A. (2000-2004)
• Chair, Hematology Subspecialty Board, American Board, U.S.A. (2000-2004)
• Elected Member, European Academy of Sciences (2004)
• Elected Fellow, The Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, TWAS (2010)