Biography:Ming-Jer Tsai

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Short description: Taiwanese cell biologist

Ming-Jer Tsai (Chinese: 蔡明哲) is a Taiwanese cell biologist.

Tsai was born in Qingshui, Taichung, the third of six children, and lived there until the age of 10.[1] He attended middle school in Kaohsiung, then moved to Taipei for high school and college,[1] graduating from National Taiwan University in 1966.[1][2] Subsequently, he relocated to the United States, earning a doctorate at the University of California, Davis in 1971.[2][3] Tsai was a postdoctoral researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center until 1973, when he began teaching at Baylor University.[2][3] He held Baylor's Charles C. Bell Jr. Professorship in Cell Biology from 1998 until his retirement.[2][3] Tsai was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 2010.[2]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Tsai, Ming-jer (20 August 2018). "INTERVIEW - MING-JER TSAI" (Interview). Interviewed by Priscilla Li and Steven Loyd. Houston, Texas: Houston Asian American Archive. Retrieved 7 September 2023.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "Ming-Jer Tsai". Academia Sinica. https://academicians.sinica.edu.tw/index.php?r=academician-n%2Fshow&id=611&_lang=en. 
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Ming-Jer Tsai, Ph.D.". Baylor College Medicine. https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/ming-jer-tsai-32037.