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Tang K. Tang
唐堂
Official portrait, 2024
Vice President of Academia Sinica
In office
21 December 2022  18 June 2026
PresidentJames C. Liao
Preceded byFu-Tong Liu
Succeeded byYi-Fang Tsay
Personal details
EducationTunghai University (BS)
National Yang-Ming University (MS)
Yale University (MA, PhD)

Tang Kent Tang (Chinese: 唐堂; pinyin: Táng Táng) is a Taiwanese geneticist, cellular biologist, and biomedical researcher who has been a vice president of Academia Sinica from 2022 to 2026. He is best known for his research on centrosomes.

Education

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Tang graduated from Tunghai University with a B.S. in biology in 1978 and earned an M.S. in microbiology and immunology from National Yang-Ming University in 1983.[1] He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning an M.A. and his Ph.D. in human genetics in 1988 from Yale University.[2] His doctoral dissertation, completed under geneticist Edward J. Benz Jr. and pathologist Vincent Marchesi, was titled, "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1".[3]

Academic career

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After receiving his doctorate, Tang was a postdoctoral fellow of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine from 1988 to 1989.[4] At the end of his postdoctoral fellowship, he became a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica, where he later served as an associate research fellow, research fellow, and distinguished research fellow.[5]

In 2022, Tang was elected a member of Academia Sinica. He remains a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.[2][6]

He also is a member of the Program in Molecular Medicine, a collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica.[7]

He co-holds patents with Academia Sinica research colleagues.[8]

References

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  1. "TANG K. TANG". Academia Sinica. Retrieved 2 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 "Dr.Tang, Tang K.唐堂博士 HOME 首頁". www.ibms.sinica.edu.tw. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  3. "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1" (PhD Thesis). Proquest. 1988. Retrieved 6 October 2025.
  4. "Tang K. Tang". orcid.org. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
  5. 中央通訊社 (2022-12-21). "中研院生命科學組副院長交接 院士唐堂接任 | 生活". 中央社 CNA (in Chinese). Retrieved 2026-03-04.
  6. Chung, Jake. "Top research institute selects 19 new members". taipeitimes.com. Taipei Times. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
  7. An, Hsiao-Lung; Kuo, Hung-Chih; Tang, Tang K. (2022). "Modeling Human Primary Microcephaly With hiPSC-Derived Brain Organoids Carrying CPAP-E1235V Disease-Associated Mutant Protein". Frontiers in Cell and Developmental Biology. 10 830432. doi:10.3389/fcell.2022.830432. ISSN 2296-634X. PMC 8924525. PMID 35309908.
  8. "Tang K. Tang Inventions, Patents and Patent Applications - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2022-08-03.
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