Wai Yiu Cheung
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)
- Member of the Academia Sinica
- 1981 Gairdner Foundation International Award
- 1983/1984 Harvey Lecture
- 1984 Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture of the American Heart Association
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
- ↑ Hot Papers. The Scientist January 8, 1990
- ↑ Wai Yiu Cheung PhD at the Gairdner Foundation (gairdner.org); Retrieved March 21, 2013
- ^ WY Cheung: Biological functions of calmodulin. In: Harvey lectures. Volume 79, 1983-1984, pp. 173-216, ISSN 0073-0874 . PMID 6100675 . (Review).
- ↑ Arthur C. Corcoran Memorial Lecture at the American Heart Association (heart.org); accessed on May 22, 2019.
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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 |