Yuan-Chuan Lee

Yuan-Chuan Lee
李遠川
Born (1932-03-30) 30 March 1932 (age 92)
Shinchiku, Japanese Taiwan
NationalityRepublic of China
EducationHsinchu Senior High School
Alma materNational Taiwan University
University of Iowa
OccupationBiochemist
EmployerJohns Hopkins University
FatherLee Tze-fan
RelativesLee Yuan-pern, Yuan T. Lee (brothers)
AwardsClaude S. Hudson Award
Rosalind Kornfeld Award
This article is about the biochemist. For the politician, see Lee Yuan-chuan.

Yuan-Chuan Lee (Chinese: 李遠川; pinyin: Lǐ Yuǎnchuān; born 30 March 1932) is a Taiwanese biochemist who is currently a professor at Johns Hopkins University in the United States.

A Hsinchu City native born on 30 March 1932,[1] Yuan-Chuan Lee was the eldest son of painter Lee Tze-fan and his wife. Yuan-Chuan Lee graduated from Hsinchu Senior High School, as did his brothers Yuan T. Lee and Yuan-Pern Lee. Lee then attended National Taiwan University, where he earned a bachelor's of science degree in 1955, followed by a master's of science in agricultural chemistry in 1957. Lee completed his doctorate at the University of Iowa in 1962 under the supervision of Rex Montgomery.[2] Lee moved to the University of California, Berkeley for postdoctoral research with Clinton Ballou,[3] and joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty in 1965, where he was appointed Academy Professor in 2011.[4]

In 1994, Yuan-Chuan Lee became a member of Academia Sinica.[5] Seven years later, Lee received the Claude S. Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry from the American Chemical Society.[6] The Society for Glycobiology's 2011 Rosalind Kornfeld Award was shared between Lee and Sen-itiroh Hakomori.[3] Lee was named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2016.[7]

  1. ^ The Republic of China Yearbook 2010. Government Information Office. 2010. p. 418. ISBN 9789860252781.
  2. ^ Berg, Clarence Peter (1980). The University of Iowa and Biochemistry from Their Beginnings. University of Iowa. p. 124. ISBN 9780874140149. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  3. ^ a b "The 2011 Karl Meyer Award and Rosalind Kornfeld Award from the Society for Glycobiology". Glycobiology. 21 (11): 1390–1392. 1 November 2011. doi:10.1093/glycob/cwr133. PMID 21994329.
  4. ^ "Lee, Yuan Chuan". Genomics Research Institute, Academia Sinica. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  5. ^ "Lee family awaits Academa Sinica membership vote". Taipei Times. 7 July 2004. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  6. ^ "Baltimore chemist wins national award for insights into body's carbohydrates". American Chemical Society. 28 March 2001. Retrieved 5 December 2018.
  7. ^ "4 Johns Hopkins Researchers Named Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science". Johns Hopkins University. 21 November 2016. Retrieved 5 December 2018.