Wah Chiu

Who is this?

Wah Chiu (Chinese: 趙華) is a Hong Kong-born American biophysicist, currently the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Chair Professor in the department of bioengineering, department of microbiology and immunology and the Photon Science Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. He is a Stanford Bio-X affiliated Faculty. He was formerly the Distinguished Service Professor and the Alvin Romansky Chair Professor at Baylor College of Medicine where he was the founding director of the National Center for Biomolecular Imaging, and has been active in the new cryo-EM techniques allowing much higher-resolution structures of large molecular complexes such as viruses and chaperonin.

Career

1. 1947
   Born
2. Member of National Academy of Sciences
3. Member of Stanford University Bioengineering Department
4. Member of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
5. Won Guggenheim Fellowship

Trivia

• •Place of birth: Hong Kong
• •Known as: biochemist, academic, university teacher, bioengineer