Shih-Chun Wang

Shih-Chun Wang (1910-1993) was a Chinese-American neuroscientist and a pharmacology professor.[1][2][3]

He was born in China, earned a medical degree from Beijing Union Medical College, and earned his PhD from Northwestern University in 1940.[1] He had come to the United States in 1937 with a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study at Northwestern.[1] In 1951 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship.[4]

From 1941 until 1956 he was a member of Columbia University's Department of Physiology, and after that he joined its Department of Pharmacology.[1] He was the first person to be its Gustavus A. Pfeiffer Professor of Pharmacology, and he retired in 1978.[1]

His research into motion sickness led to the creation of drugs to prevent problems such as vomiting.[5] He studied nausea in astronauts for NASA, which helped lead to the creation of the vomit comet.[5]

The Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award of the American Physiological Society is since 1999 "given annually to an individual demonstrating outstanding promise based on their research program in the physiological sciences."[6][7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Saxon, Wolfgang. "Shih-Chun Wang, Leading Specialist On Brain, Dies at 83".
  2. ↑ "Community works to fill Wikipedia's Asian-American, Pacific Islander gaps".
  3. ↑ "Hsieh hou yü ssu chʻien tʻiao /". Worldcat.org. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  4. ↑ "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Shih-Chun Wang". Gf.org. 2014-06-20. Retrieved 2018-07-05.
  5. 1 2 "New chancellor took her own path".
  6. ↑ "American Physiological Society > Early Career Professional Awards". www.the-aps.org.
  7. ↑ "American Physiological Society > Shih-Chun Wang Young Investigator Award". www.the-aps.org.
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