Jerry H.-C. Wang

Jerry Hsueh-Ching Wang ( Chinese 王學荊 , Pinyin Wang Xuejing , W.-G. Wang Hsüeh-ching ; * 1937 ) is a biochemist .

Life

Wang earned a bachelor's degree from Taiwan National University in 1958 and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University in 1965. in biochemistry. As a postdoctoral fellow , he worked at the National Research Council of Canada in 1965/1966 . In 1982 he received a professorship in biochemistry at the University of Calgary , where from 1990 to 1994 he led the research of the Medical Research Council of Canada (since 2000 Canadian Institutes of Health Research ) on signal transduction . Since 1994 he has been Professor of Biochemistry at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology , and in 2002 he retired.

Wang's main area of research is signal transduction . He was able to contribute to the discovery of important key proteins in signal transduction and to the elucidation of their functions. Wang isolated the calmodulin and was able to show that its function is calcium- dependent. He also isolated calcineurin as the most important calmodulin-binding protein of the central nervous system and several isoforms of the cyclonucleotide phosphodiesterases .

Wang also discovered the active complex of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (Cdk5) and identified two of its activators , thereby opening up new fields of research in neuroscience .

personal data
SURNAME	Wang, Jerry H.-C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Wang, Jerry Hsueh-Ching; 王學荊; Wang Xuejing
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chinese biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	1937