PREVIOUS AWARDS

2009 Life Sciences
Academician Shu Chien

Academician Shu Chien's Personal Profiles

Born: June 23, 1931

Education:

  • National Peking University (Premed.), 1947 to 1948.
  • National Taiwan University (College of Medicine), 1949 to 1953, M.D.
  • Reserve Office Training Corp, Medical Officers, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1953-1954.
  • Columbia University (Physiology), 1954 to 1957, Ph.D.

Appointments:

  • Rotating Intern, National Taiwan University Hospital, 1952 to 1953.
  • Assistant in Physiology, Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons, N.Y. City, 1954-56.
  • Instructor in Physiology, Columbia Univ. College of Physicians & Surgeons, 1956-58.
  • Assistant Professor of Physiology, Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons, 1958-64.
  • Associate Professor of Physiology, Columbia Univ. Coll. of Physicians & Surgeons, 1964-69.
  • Professor of Physiology and Director of Laboratory of Hemorheology, Columbia Univ. P&S, 1969-88.
  • Director, Division of Circulatory Physiology and Biophysics, Columbia Univ. P&S, 1974-88.
  • Director, Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, R.O.C., 1987-88.
  • Professor of Bioengineering & Medicine, and Member of Center for Molecular Genetics, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1988- Present.
  • Coordinator, Bioengineering Group, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1989-1994.
  • Chair, Department of Bioengineering, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1994-1999, 2002-2005.
  • Director, Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Univ. of California, San Diego, 1991-2008.
  • University Professor, University of California, 2002-present. Director, Bioengineering Institute of California (Univ. of California System-wide), 2004-present.
  • Y.C. Fung Professor of Bioengineering, Univ. of California, San Diego, 2006-present.
  • Director, Institute of Engineering in Medicine, Univ. of California, San Diego, 2008-present.

Areas of Research Interest:

  • Effects of mechanical forces on gene expression and signal transduction
  • Integrative and systems physiology
  • Molecular, cellular and tissue bioengineering
  • Bioengineering research on stem cells