Prof. Daniel I C WANG has joined NUS as a Temasek Professor in the Department since October 2000. Professor Wang also serves as a Special Advisor to the Bioprocessing Technology Institute, a national research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), and devotes part of his time to help Singapore in its biomedical science research and development. Professor Wang founded the Biotechnology Process Engineering Center at MIT through the NSF Engineering Research Center program and was as its Director from 1985 to 1998. He held the Chevron Professorship from 1985 to 1996 at MIT and was named as an Institute Professor, the highest honor at MIT, in 1996. Among Professor Wang’s international recognitions are Honorary Doctorates from the HongKong University of Science and Technology and from the Catholic University Valparaiso, Chile, and awards from the American Chemical Society (Marvin J. Johnson Award, and David Perlman Memorial Lecturer) and from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (Food, Pharmaceutical and Bioengineering Award, Institute Lecturerand William H. Walker Award). He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering, the Academia Sinica (Republic of China) and the International Institute of Biotechnology.
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