- Chi-Huey Wong
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Chi-Huey Wong
翁啟惠
Born August 3, 1948
Chiayi County, TaiwanNationality United States Fields Chemistry
chemical biologyInstitutions Texas A&M University
The Scripps Research Institute
Academia Sinica (Taiwan)Notable awards The IUPAC International Carbohydrate Award(1994)
The American Chemical Society Harrison Howe Award(1998)
The International Enzyme Engineering Award(1999)
The American Chemical Society Claude S. Hudson Award(1999)
Arthur C. Cope Award(2012)Chi-Huey Wong (Chinese: 翁啟惠; born August 3, 1948) is a Taiwanese-born biochemist and professor of chemistry and chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. His expertise is bioorganic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate biochemistry and chemical proteomics. He was elected as a member of the United States National Academy of Science in 2002 and an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994.
Wong received his bachelor's and master's degrees in science from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1982, Wong earned his Ph.D degree in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the United States, where he carried out research under the supervision of George M. Whitesides. He continued on as a postdoctoral researcher in the same laboratory after Whitesides had relocated to Harvard University. In 1983, he joined the faculty at Texas A&M University, before moving to Scripps in 1989.
Research in the Wong lab encompasses a broad spectrum of bioorganic and synthetic chemistry. Development of small molecules targeting proteins and RNA has been performed to investigate how small molecules interact with biologically important molecules and in turn, learn more about the function of those molecules. Development of both synthetic and bioorganic strategies is also paramount to his research. Programmable one-pot reactions are being developed for the synthesis of complex oligosaccharides and glycoarrays and complement new chemo-enzymatic strategies for the assembly of glycoproteins and other biologically active molecules.
Since 2004, Wong became the founding director of The Genomics Research Center of Academia Sinica. He was later appointed by the President of the Republic of China to head Academia Sinica, the national academy of science in Taiwan. He took the office in October, 2006.
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