Name       Chi-Huey Wong
Current Position       President, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Education       B.S. & M.S., National Taiwan University, 1977
      Ph.D., Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982
Positions Held
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard University, 1982–1983
  • Assistant Professor (1983–1986), Associate Professor (1986–1987), and Professor (1987–1989) of Chemistry, Texas A&M University
  • Head, Frontier Research Program on Glycotechnolgy, Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan, 1991–1999
  • Board member of the National Research Council on Chemical Sciences & Technology, USA, 2000–2004
  • Scientific Advisor for Max-Planck-Institut at Dortmund, Germany, 2000–present
  • Editor-in-Chief, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 1993–present
  • Director, The Genomic Research Center, Acadmia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, 2003–2006
  • Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan University, 2003–present
  • Professor and Ernest W. Hahn Chair in Chemistry (1989–2006), Professor (2006-present), The Scripps Research Institute
    　
Research Interests      Chemical Biology, Synthetic Organic Chemistry

Honors and Awards
     1985 Searle Scholar Award in Biomedical Sciences

     1986 Presidential Young Investigator Award in Chemistry

     1994 The IUPAC International Carbohydrate Award

     1994 Elected Member of Academia Sinica, Taipei

     1996 Elected Member of The American Academy of Arts and Sciences

     1998 The American Chemical Society Harrison Howe Award in Chemistry

     1999 The American Chemical Society Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry

     1999 The International Enzyme Engineering Award

     2000 The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, USA

     2002 Elected Member of the US National Academy of Sciences

     2005 The American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry