Yuh Nung Jan

Yuh Nung Jan (Chinese: 詹裕農; pinyin: Zhān Yùnóng; born January 11, 1947) is a Chinese-American neuroscientist. He is Jack and DeLoris Lange Professor of Molecular Physiology at the University of California, San Francisco, where he works together with his wife Lily Jan at the Jan Lab.

Biography

Jan was born in Shanghai, China to a wealthy family from Jiangxi. His birthday is officially listed as December 20, 1946, but that is according to the Chinese calendar and corresponds to January 11, 1947 of the Western calendar. In 1949, his family escaped to Xinpu, Hsinchu, Taiwan.[1]

He went to National Taiwan University where he earned a BS in physics in 1968. He started his graduate studies at Caltech studying theoretical physics, but he changed his field to biology. His thesis advisor, Max Delbrück, a winner of the 1969 Nobel Prize, was also physicist who later studied biology. After graduating in 1974, he did a postdoc at Caltech under Seymour Benzer before moving to Harvard Medical School for a postdoc with Steven Kuffler.[2] He has been an HHMI investigator since 1984.

He and his wife, Lily, both studied physics at National Taiwan University before going to Caltech where his wife was also a physics grad student before switching to biology.[2] They were married in 1971.[3] They were in the same lab at Caltech for graduate studies, did two postdocs together, and have won several awards together. He and his wife joined the faculty at UCSF in 1979 where they set up a joint lab.[1] They have a son, Max, and a daughter, Emily.[3] Jan's brother Jonathan is also a physicist.[1]

Awards

  • Gruber Foundation Neuroscience Prize
  • Wiley Prize in Biomedical Sciences
  • Edward M. Scolnick Prize in Neuroscience, McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
  • Ralph W. Gerard Prize, Society for Neuroscience
  • Distinguished Alumni Award, California Institute of Technology
  • Faculty Research Award, UCSF
  • Outstanding Faculty Mentorship Award, Postdoctoral Scholars Association of UCSF
  • W. Alden Spencer Award, Columbia University
  • Jacob Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke
  • K.S. Cole Award, Biophysical Society
  • SCBA Presidential Award, Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Jans' Autobiography and Lab History". Jan Lab, UCSF. Retrieved 2018-02-08.
  2. 1 2 "Yuh Nung Jan, PhD - HHMI.org".
  3. 1 2 "Yuh Nung Jan - The Gruber Foundation". gruber.yale.edu.
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