Chiaho Shih

Chiaho Shih
Born	January 9, 1950 (1950-01-09) (age 61)
Institutions	Academia Sinica

Chiaho Shih (施嘉和, born January 9, 1950) is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Disease & Immunology at Academia Sinica in Taiwan. His research is in the area of Molecular virology, Viral hepatitis and Hepatoma, and Cancer.

He is best known for his discovery of the first human oncogene Ras in 1982 while as a graduate student in the lab of Robert Weinberg at MIT, which is partially documented in Natalie Angiers book, Natural Obsessions, about her year spent in Weinberg's lab.

Shih was previously a professor at the University of Texas Medical Branch and the University of Pennsylvania.

Further reading

• Shih, C. and Weinberg, R.A. (1982). "Isolation of a transforming sequence from a human bladder carcinoma cell line". Cell 29 (1): 161–169. doi:10.1016/0092-8674(82)90100-3. PMID 6286138. 

External links

• Shih's page at the University of Texas Medical Branch
• Shih's page at Academia Sinica
• Scientific Commons: Chiaho Shih

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