Wai Yiu Cheung

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Wai Yiu Cheung (* 15. July 1933 in Canton , † before 1998) was a Chinese-American biochemist at St. Jew Children's Research Hospital in Memphis , Tennessee , which for the discovery of calmodulin and his work on the function of calcium known is.

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Cheung earned a Masters degree in 1956 from Taichung Provincial Agricultural College (now part of Chung Hsing National University ) in the Republic of China and a bachelor's degree in 1960 from the University of Vermont , Burlington . In 1964 he earned a Ph.D. with his thesis Carbohydrate metabolism of a blue green alga: Tolypothrix tenuis. at Cornell University in City of Ithaca , New York . He worked as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia before moving to the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis , Tennessee , in 1967 - first as a research assistant, then as a full member . Cheung also held a professorship at the University of Tennessee .

Cheung coined in 1978 the term "calmodulin" for a discovered by him activator - protein of phosphodiesterase , which regulates a wide range of calcium-dependent processes and the calcium level itself. His work Calmodulin plays a pivotal role in cellular regulation , published in Science in 1980, is one of the ten most cited scientific papers of the 1980s.

Cheung was married with three children.

Awards (selection)

Fonts (selection)

  • Calcium and cell function. 1980
  • Calmodulin plays a pivotal role in cellular regulation. In: Science . Volume 207, Number 4426, January 1980, pp. 19-27, ISSN  0036-8075 . PMID 6243188 . (Review).

literature

  • The Republic of China Yearbook. Taipei 1994. p. 164

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hot Papers. The Scientist January 8, 1990
  2. ↑ Wai Yiu Cheung PhD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved March 21, 2013
  3. ^ WY Cheung: Biological functions of calmodulin. In: Harvey lectures. Volume 79, 1983-1984, pp. 173-216, ISSN  0073-0874 . PMID 6100675 . (Review).
  4. ↑ Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture at the American Heart Association (heart.org); accessed on May 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Cheung, Wai Yiu
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cheung Wai Yiu; Cheung, George; Zhang Huaiyao; Chang Huai-Yao
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sino-American biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Canton
DATE OF DEATH before 1998