Re: [爆卦] 翁啟惠獲頒 Welch Award in Chemistry

可是瑞凡，浩鼎解盲還是掛了

這是不是代表台灣不缺研究人才

反而是缺張忠謀這種有待過業界的經營人材

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: Houston, TX – September 8, 2021 – The Welch Foundation, one of the natio
n’
: s largest sources of private funding for basic chemical research, has
: announced that Professor Chi-Huey Wong is the 2021 recipient of the
: prestigious Robert A. Welch Award in Chemistry. Dr. Wong is an influential

: leader who has made numerous discoveries in the fields of synthetic chemis
try
: and chemical biology that have benefited humankind. With this award, he is

: being recognized for his development of new methods for the synthesis of
: complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins and the elucidation of
: carbohydrate-mediated biological recognition associated with disease
: progression.
: “The mission of The Welch Foundation is to improve the lives of others
: through the advancement of chemical research, and Dr. Wong has been workin
g
: towards that goal for decades,” said Carin Barth, Chair and Director, The

: Welch Foundation Board of Directors. “Not only has he made revolutionary
: advances in chemistry and biology, but his methodologies will facilitate n
ew
: drug and vaccine developments for years to come.”
: Dr. Wong is the Scripps Family Chair Professor in the Department of Chemis
try
: at The Scripps Research Institute. Much of his work for the past three
: decades has focused on the importance of carbohydrates in the active
: immunization and treatment of cancer and infectious disease. His work sinc
e
: the 1980’s resulted in the development of scientific and technological to
ols
: including effective synthesis of complex polysaccharide antigens and
: glycoconjugates, suppression of autoimmune phenomena, homogenous antibodie
s,
: boosting the memory of the immune system and enhancing its cancer and viru
s
: killing abilities, and highly sensitive analytical methods. Recently, thes
e
: tools and methods were instrumental in creating a vaccine that targets
: carbohydrates specific to the surface of cancer cells.
: 卦點：
: 這麼長一篇英文，如果五分鐘內有人來推文，代表他根本沒看，特別是來黑的
: Carbohydrates are one of the four major classes of molecules that make up
: cells, including nucleic acids, proteins and lipids. A serious impediment
to
: investigating their role in biology is making them. “Chi-Huey Wong is the

: most important figure in the development of carbohydrate synthesis using
: enzymatic catalysis.” said Peter Dervan, Chair, The Welch Foundation
: Scientific Advisory Board. “Chi-Huey transformed the field of carbohydrat
e
: chemistry with innovative synthetic methods such as automated programmable

: assembly of oligosaccharides using computer-based guide to select the orde
r
: of building blocks. This eliminated the problem of protecting group
: manipulation in traditional solution phase synthesis and enabled biochemis
ts
: to study the functional role of glycosylation of proteins and lipids in
: biology and medicine.”
: Dr. Wong received B.S. and M.S. degrees from National Taiwan University an
d a
: Ph.D. in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was a
: postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University with George M. Whitesides for a
: year before becoming a faculty member at Texas A&M University where he was

: soon promoted to a full professor. He joined the Scripps Research Institut
e
: in 1989 as Professor and Ernest W. Hahn Chair in Chemistry until 2006 when
he
: was appointed as President of Academia Sinica for a 10-year term. He then
: became President Emeritus in 2016 and Distinguished Research Fellow at the

: Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica with a joint appointment as
: Professor of Chemistry at The Scripps Research Institute. Since 2019, he h
as
: served as the Scripps Family Chair Professor in the Department of Chemistr
y
: at The Scripps Research Institute in addition to being a Distinguished
: Research Fellow at the Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica.
: Dr. Wong is the recipient of numerous awards including the Searle Scholar
: Award in Biomedical Sciences (1985), the Presidential Young Investigator
: Award in Chemistry (1986), the American Chemical Society (ACS) Arthur C. C
ope
: Scholar Award (1993), the Roy Whistler Award of the International
: Carbohydrate Organization (1994), the ACS Harrison Howe Award in Chemistry

: (1999), the ACS Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry (1999), t
he
: International Enzyme Engineering Award (1999), the US Presidential Green
: Chemistry Challenge Award (2000), the ACS Award for Creative Work in
: Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2005), the Humboldt Research Award for Senior

: Scientists (2006), the F. Albert Cotton Medal (2008), the Nikkei Asia Priz
e
: for Science, Technology and Innovation (2012), the ACS Arthur C. Cope Meda
l
: (2012), the Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2014) and the Robert Robinson Award o
f
: the Royal Society of Chemistry, UK (2015).

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