Ting Wu

Quick Facts

Full Name	Ting Wu
Occupation	American Biologist
Date Of Birth	Jan 24, 1954(1954-01-24)
Age	70
Birthplace	New Haven
Country	United States
Birth City	Connecticut
Horoscope	Capricorn

Ting Wu Biography

Ting Wu is one of the most popular and richest American biologist who was born on January 24, 1954 in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Chao-ting Wu (Chinese: Wu Zhao Ting Pinyin: Wu Zhaoting ; born 24 January 1954) is an American molecular biologist. After completing her studies with Harvard Medical School in genetics with William Gelbart, and at Stanford Medical School with David Hogness and an internship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in molecular biology, Wu began her independent academic career as an assistant professor in the department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology. She was promoted to professor in genetics, at Harvard Medical School in 1993. Following a brief stint as a Professor of Pediatrics at the Division of Molecular Medicine at the Boston Children’s Hospital, she returned to the Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School as an full professor in 2007.

She chaired in 2005 the Epigenetics Gordon Research Conference as well as in 2003, the FASEB Conference on Chromatin and Transcription and the GETed Conferences.

She has worked with the Smithsonian and the National Museum of Natural History as part of the exhibit on “Genome: Unlocking Life’s Code” which opened June 14, 2013.

Ting Wu has four patents pending on topics related to biomedical research and health applications “Oligonucleotide Trapping “ (2013), “High-Throughput In Situ Hybridization” (2012), “Methods For Sequencing Nucleic Acid Molecules” (2012), and “Oligonucleotide Paints” (2010).

Wu was an associate with Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Molecular Biology from 1987 until 1991. She transferred to the main campus of Harvard Medical School to become an associate professor within the Department of Anatomy and Cellular Biology before joining to the Department of Genetics, also located at Harvard Medical School, in 1993. The year 2005 saw her quit to join the Department of Genetics to become a professor of pediatrics at the Division of Molecular Medicine at the Boston Children’s Hospital. Her return to Harvard Medical School was in 2007. Department of Genetics at Harvard Medical School as full professor in 2007.

Ting Wu Net Worth

Ting Wu is one of the richest American Biologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Ting Wu 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Wu was a student at Mary Institute (now Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, MICDS) in St. Louis, Missouri between 1968 and 1972. She then earned her bachelor’s BS degrees from the Department of Biology in Biology at Harvard University. She earned the Ph.D. degree in 1984 from Harvard Medical School in Genetics after which, following a brief time in Stanford Medical School with David Hogness who was her mentor, she established an institute of research that was non-profit located in Cheshire, Connecticut, called the Station for Natural Studies Inc. The institute received grants through the Whitehall Foundation and the Helen Hay Whitney Foundation. She was also affiliated to nearby Yale University during this time.

Since the year 1980 since 1980, Dr. Wu’s work has been concentrated on the role played by the chromosomes’ behavior in inheritance as well as gene activity, focusing on the many phenomena where homology between chromosomes plays an important part. She invented”homology effects,” a term she coined to define “homology effects” to highlight the effects of homology. Her research has focused on transvection as well as the zeste gene the chromosome-to- chromosome pairing process, as well as Polycomb genes and chromatin remodelling. She also has uncovered the mechanisms that bridge enhancer and promoter elements inside and between the chromosomes.

Wu was one of ten people in the US to receive the National Institutes of Health Director’s Pioneer Award in 2012. She has also received awards for teaching and mentoring at Harvard University and Harvard Medical School.

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Ting Ranked on the list of most popular American biologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Ting Wu celebrates birthday on January 24 of every year.