# Wah Chiu

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{{Short description|American biophysicist}}
{{Western name order|Chiu Wah}}
{{Infobox scientist
| birth_place       = [Hong Kong](/source/Hong_Kong)
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1947|Jun|5|df=yes}}
| field             = [Biophysics](/source/Biophysics)
| alma_mater        = [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) ([BS](/source/Bachelor_of_Science), [PhD](/source/PhD))
| workplaces        = [University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson](/source/University_of_Arizona_College_of_Medicine_%E2%80%93_Tucson), [Baylor College of Medicine](/source/Baylor_College_of_Medicine), [Stanford University](/source/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](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Pui_Ching_Middle_School_(Hong_Kong)).<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](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley), where he received both his B.S. (1969) and Ph.D. (1975). He was elected an academician of Taiwan's [Academia Sinica](/source/Academia_Sinica) in 2008 and a member of the [United States National Academy of Sciences](/source/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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