Tang K. Tang
Tang K. Tang | |
|---|---|
| 唐堂 | |
Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Vice President of Academia Sinica | |
| Assumed office 21 December 2022 Serving with Mei-Yin Chou and Chin-Shing Huang | |
| President | James C. Liao |
| Preceded by | Fu-Tong Liu |
| Personal details | |
| Education | Tunghai University (BS) National Yang-Ming University (MS) Yale University (MA, PhD) |
Tang Kent Tang (Chinese: 唐堂; pinyin: Táng Táng) is a Taiwanese geneticist, cellular biologist, and biomedical researcher who has been a vice president of Academia Sinica since 2022. He is best known for his research on centrosomes.
Education
Tang graduated from Tunghai University with a B.S. in biology in 1978 and earned an M.S. in microbiology and immunology from National Yang-Ming University in 1983.[1] He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning an M.A. and his Ph.D. in human genetics in 1988 from Yale University.[2] His doctoral dissertation, completed under geneticist Edward J. Benz Jr. and pathologist Vincent Marchesi, was titled, "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1".[3]
Academic career
After receiving his doctorate, Tang was a postdoctoral fellow of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine from 1988 to 1989.[4] At the end of his postdoctoral fellowship, he became a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica, where he later served as an associate research fellow, research fellow, and distinguished research fellow.[5]
In 2022, Tang was elected a member of Academia Sinica. He remains a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.[2][6]
He also is a member of the Program in Molecular Medicine, a collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica.[7]
He co-holds patents with Academia Sinica research colleagues.[8]
References
- ^ "TANG K. TANG". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
- ^ a b "Dr.Tang,Tang K.唐堂博士 HOME 首頁". www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
- ^ "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1" (PhD Thesis). Proquest. 1988. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
- ^ "Tang K. Tang". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
- ^ 中央通訊社 (2022-12-21). "中研院生命科學組副院長交接 院士唐堂接任 | 生活". 中央社 CNA (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-03-04.
- ^ Chung, Jake. "Top research institute selects 19 new members". taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ An, Hsiao-Lung; Kuo, Hung-Chih; Tang, Tang K. (2022). "Modeling Human Primary Microcephaly With hiPSC-Derived Brain Organoids Carrying CPAP-E1235V Disease-Associated Mutant Protein". Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10 830432. doi:10.3389/fcell.2022.830432. ISSN 2296-634X. PMC 8924525. PMID 35309908.
- ^ "Tang K. Tang Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.