Wu Yun Dong

Yun-Dong, Wu is a theoretical organic chemist based in the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and holds a concurrent position in Peking University. He was born 10 May 1957 in Liyang, Jiangsu, China. He graduated with a BS from Lanzhou University in 1982 and received his PhD in 1986 from the University of Pittsburgh, working with Kendall N. Houk in computational organic chemistry. He went on to become a research associate in University of California Los Angeles from 1989 to 1992, before beginning his independent research career in Hong Kong.

Professor Wu has received numerous awards in his career; in December 2005, he was elected as an Academician of the prestigious Chinese Academy of Sciences. His research interest focuses mainly on the elucidation of reaction mechanisms, protein-protein interactions/aggregations (Alzheimer's disease etc) and conformational features of natural and unnatural peptides.

External links

# [http://home.ust.hk/~chydwu/ Curriculum Vitae from The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology]
# [http://www.chem.pku.edu.cn/wuyd/ Curriculum Vitae from Peking University College of Chemistry ]
# [http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%90%B4%E4%BA%91%E4%B8%9C Chinese Wikipedia article]