Ting-Chao Chou

Ting-Chao Chou
周廷潮
Born	Shinchiku Prefecture, Taiwan, Empire of Japan
Education	Kaohsiung Medical University (BS) National Taiwan University (MS) Yale University (PhD)
Scientific career
Fields	Theoretical biology
Workplaces	Yale University Johns Hopkins University Cornell University Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
Thesis	L-Asparagine biosynthesis and its control (1970)
Doctoral advisor	Robert E. Handschumacher

Ting-Chao Chou (Chinese: 周廷潮; pinyin: Zhōu Tíngcháo) is a Taiwanese-American theoretical biologist, pharmacologist, cancer researcher and inventor.

Biography

Chou was born in Changgangling Village, Hukou Township, Hsinchu County, Japanese Taiwan. His parents were Chao-Yun Chou and Sheng-Mei Chen. His father was a teacher.

Education

After graduating from National Hsinchu Senior High School, Chou attended medical school at Kaohsiung Medical University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in pharmaceutical sciences. He then earned a master's degree in medicine from National Taiwan University. In 1965, he began pursuing graduate studies in the United States at Yale University, where he earned his Ph.D. in quantitative biology. He did a postdoctoral fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in the pharmacology department during 1970–1972.

In 1972 he joined the laboratory of pharmacology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) in New York City as an assistant professor, affiliated to Cornell University Graduate School of Medical Sciences. He became a member and professor in 1988. He retired on June 1, 2013, from the directorship of Preclinical Pharmacology Core Laboratory, Molecular Pharmacology & Chemistry Program of MSKCC, and established the PD Science LLC in 2013 in Paramus, New Jersey, to promote MAL based biodynamics, pharmacodynamics, combination index, and bioinformatics [MAL-BD/PD/CI/BI] theory and application.

External links

• https://shop.elsevier.com/books/mass-action-law-dynamics-theory-and-algorithm-for-translational-and-precision-medicine-informatics/chou/978-0-443-28874-6 [Academic Press/Elsevier, April 2024, ISBN 978-0-443-28874-6]
• https://books.google.com/books/about/Mass_Action_Law_Dynamics_Theory_and_Algo.html?id=GijcEAAAQBAJ [Academic Press/Elsevier, April 2024, ISBN 978-0-443-28874-6]
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ting-Chao-Chou [TC Chou Research Gate Bibliometrics]
• https://www.journals.elsevier.com/advances-in-biological-regulation/news/-chou-talalay-paper-from-1984-makes-history [Chou & Talalay paper from 1984 makes history. Elservier Press Release 3.16.2016]
• Chou, Ting-Chao (22 July 2008). "The Mass-Action-Law Based GPS Concept for Bio-Informatics" (PDF). Nature Precedings: 1.
• http://laoyouji000.blog.sohu.com/102704065.html [Comments on Chou's Speech in Beijing by Muyu in Sohu Blog, in Chinese]
• http://libgallery.cshl.edu/items/show/32731 [Chou's letter to Prof. James D. Watson. 10/6/1974, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Archives Repository]
• https://www.mskcc.org/blog/finding-treatments-nature [MSKCC News]
• http://blogs.rsc.org/ib/2011/05/05/hot-one-equation-to-lead-the-way-to-greener-biomedical-sciences/ [Integrative Biology Blogs, Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, UK]
• http://www.bio-itworldexpo.com/Bio-It_Europe_Content.aspx?id=106874&libID=106831 [Featured Speech BioIT World 2012. Hanover, Germany, on Drug Discovery Informatics]
• http://regulatoryaffairs.pharmaceuticalconferences.com/speaker/2015/ting-chao-chou-pd-science-llc-usa [ Chou Opening Keynote Speech]
• 周廷潮 [Chou TC Chinese Wikipedia 2017]
• http://sp.mc.ntu.edu.tw/sopPage.php?malangue=&myrub=news&flanum=72884116445NWstLUUDpXSM6 [Natl. Taiwan Univ-P Seminar Announcement 11/14/2016]
• http://www.nibs.ac.cn/newsshow.php?cid=0&sid=14&id=408 [China Natl. Inst. Biol. Sci., Beijing Seminar announcement 10/23/2008]