{{Short description|American biophysicist}} {{Western name order|Chiu Wah}} {{Infobox scientist | birth_place = Hong Kong | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1947|Jun|5|df=yes}} | field = Biophysics | alma_mater = University of California, Berkeley (BS, PhD) | workplaces = University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Baylor College of Medicine, Stanford University | module = {{Infobox Chinese|child=yes|hide=no | t = 趙華 | s = 赵华 | p = Zhào Huá | y = Chiuh Wàh}} }} '''Wah Chiu''' ({{lang-zh|t=趙華}}) is a Hong Kong-born American biophysicist, currently the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Chair Professor in the department of bioengineering, department of microbiology and immunology and the Photon Science Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University. He is a Stanford Bio-X affiliated Faculty.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://profiles.stanford.edu/wah-chiu |title=Wah Chiu |publisher=stanford.edu |access-date=September 1, 2017}}</ref> He was formerly the Distinguished Service Professor and the Alvin Romansky Chair Professor at Baylor College of Medicine<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bcm.edu/people/view/wah-chiu-ph-d/b279d3f6-ffed-11e2-be68-080027880ca6 |title=Wah Chiu |publisher=bcm.edu |access-date=April 22, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bcm.edu/research/labs/wah-chiu |title=Wah Chiu |publisher=bcm.edu |access-date=April 22, 2017}}</ref> where he was the founding director of the National Center for Biomolecular Imaging,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ncmi.bcm.edu/ncmi/ |title=National Center for Biomolecular Imaging}}</ref> and has been active in the new cryo-EM techniques allowing much higher-resolution structures of large molecular complexes such as viruses <ref>{{cite journal |author=ML Baker |author2=CF Hryc |author3=Q Zhang |author4=W Wu |author5=J Jakana |author6=C Haas-Pettingell |author7=PA Afonine |author8=PD Adams |author9=JA King |author10=W Jiang |author11=W Chiu |title=Validated near-atomic resolution structure of bacteriophage epsilon15 derived from cryo-EM and modeling |year=2014 |journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA |volume=110 |issue=30 |pages=12301–12306 |doi=10.1073/pnas.1309947110|pmid=23840063 |pmc=3725109 |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |author=ML Baker |author2=M Chen |author3=PR Baldwin |author4=SJ Ludtke |author5=W Chiu |title=Modeling Protein Structure in Macromolecular Assemblies at Near Atomic Resolutions |journal= Microscopy and Microanalysis |year=2015 |volume=21 |issue=S3 |pages=541–542|doi=10.1017/S1431927615003505 |bibcode=2015MiMic..21S.541B |doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Hryc|first1=Corey F.|last2=Chen|first2=Dong-Hua|last3=Afonine|first3=Pavel V.|last4=Jakana|first4=Joanita|last5=Wang|first5=Zhao|last6=Haase-Pettingell|first6=Cameron|last7=Jiang|first7=Wen|last8=Adams|first8=Paul D.|last9=King|first9=Jonathan A.|date=2017-03-07|title=Accurate model annotation of a near-atomic resolution cryo-EM map|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=114|issue=12|pages=3103–3108|doi=10.1073/pnas.1621152114|pmid=28270620|issn=0027-8424|pmc=5373346|bibcode=2017PNAS..114.3103H |doi-access=free}}</ref> and chaperonin.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Zhang|first1=Junjie|last2=Baker|first2=Matthew L.|last3=Schröder|first3=Gunnar F.|last4=Douglas|first4=Nicholai R.|last5=Reissmann|first5=Stefanie|last6=Jakana|first6=Joanita|last7=Dougherty|first7=Matthew|last8=Fu|first8=Caroline J.|last9=Levitt|first9=Michael|date=January 2010|title=Mechanism of folding chamber closure in a group II chaperonin|journal=Nature|volume=463|issue=7279|pages=379–383|doi=10.1038/nature08701|pmc=2834796|issn=0028-0836|pmid=20090755|bibcode=2010Natur.463..379Z}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Roh|first1=Soung-Hun|last2=Hryc|first2=Corey F.|last3=Jeong|first3=Hyun-Hwan|last4=Fei|first4=Xue|last5=Jakana|first5=Joanita|last6=Lorimer|first6=George H.|last7=Chiu|first7=Wah|date=2017-07-14|title=Subunit conformational variation within individual GroEL oligomers resolved by Cryo-EM|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=114|issue=31|pages=8259–8264|doi=10.1073/pnas.1704725114|issn=0027-8424|pmc=5547627|pmid=28710336|bibcode=2017PNAS..114.8259R |doi-access=free}}</ref>

==Biography== Chiu was born in Hong Kong, and attended Pui Ching Middle School.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sibs.cas.cn/xwdt/hzjl/201412/t20141230_4283942.html|title=贝勒医学院赵华教授来生化与细胞所作学术报告|publisher=Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences|date=2012-09-12|access-date=2018-05-03}}</ref> He moved to the U.S. to study at University of California, Berkeley, where he received both his B.S. (1969) and Ph.D. (1975). He was elected an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 2008 and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://db1n.sinica.edu.tw/textdb/ioconas/binfo1N.php?_session=0&_op=?ID:L093|title=趙華|publisher=Academia Sinica|access-date=2018-05-03}}</ref> He has also received several honors including the Distinguished Science Award from the Microscopy Society of America<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.microscopy.org/awards/2014_awardsrecipient.cfm|title=Awards & Scholarships|website=Microscopy Society of America|access-date=2018-10-07}}</ref> and the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.helsinki.fi/fil-promootio2014/lehdistotiedote1-en.shtml|title=Helsingin yliopisto - filosofisen tiedekunnan promootio 2014|website=www.helsinki.fi|access-date=2018-10-07}}</ref>

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