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Chi-Huey Wong (Chinese: 翁啟惠; born 3 August 1948) is a Taiwanese-American biochemist. He is currently the Scripps Family Chair Professor at the Scripps Research Institute. [1] He is a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, as awarded the 2014 Wolf Prize in Chemistry and 2015 RSC Robert Robinson Award. [2]
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While Wong’s research has had a significant impact on biomedical research, his interest in sugar chemistry was piqued not by some vexing biological question, but rather by the energy crisis of the 1970s. Wong had left his native Taiwan to study for his PhD at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston, where soaring oil prices led to fuel shor...
As a student at MIT in the 1980s, Wong realized that to crack the sugar code, scientists needed a better way to make sugars. At the time, synthesizing complex sugars molecules was prohibitively time consuming and expensive, slowing the pace of glycobiology to a crawl. Wong suspected that using enzymes—substances that facilitate chemical reactions i...
One field where Wong’s work has had a significant impact is in the study of viruses and cancer, and the development of vaccines. Glycans coat the surface of many viruses that cause serious human disease, including HIV, influenza and most recently, SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the COVID-19 pandemic. Wong has developed broadly protective vaccines aga...
Lab Administrative Coordinator. Tel: (858) 784-8377. wongadmin@scripps.edu. Chi-Huey Wong Publications. Education. B.S. (1966-1970) and M.S. (1975-1977) in Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan University. Ph.D. in Chemistry (1979-1982), Department of Chemistry, MIT. Postdoctoral Fellow (1982-1983), Department of Chemistry, Harvard University.
Professor Chi-Huey WONG's Laboratory Group Focus Research in Professor Wong's lab. encompasses a broad spectrum of bioorganic and synthetic chemistry, aiming to understand carbohydrates in biology and develop new therapeutic strategies and devices.
Sep 14, 2021 · LA JOLLA, CA— The Welch Foundation, one of the nation’s largest sources of private funding for basic chemical research, has announced that Scripps Research Professor Chi-Huey Wong, PhD, is the 2021 recipient of the prestigious Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry.
Scripps Research professor of Chemistry Chi-Huey Wong, PhD, has been named winner of the 2023 Award for Excellence in Medicinal Chemistry in Memory of Barry Cohen.
Oct 9, 2021 · Chi-Huey Wong, Scripps Family Chair Professor at Scripps Research, is the winner of the 2021 Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. The $500,000 prize recognizes basic chemical research that benefits humankind. Wong will also receive a gold medallion.
