Vaccine and Immunotherapy Technologies

9-11 April 2008, Canberra

Professor Kenneth K Wu

President, National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Huffington Chair Professor Emeritus, University of Texas Health Science Center, USA

Kenneth Wu has a medical degree from the National Taiwan University, a Masters from the Yale University School of Medicine and a PhD from the University of London. In his professional career, he has held positions at the University of Iowa and the Rush Medical College in Chicago. For the past two decades he was an endowed professor and director of the Vascular Biology Research Center and the Division of Hematology at the University of Texas at Houston and an adjunct professor in the Department of Bioengineering at Rice University. Since 2006, Kenneth has served as President of the National Health Research Institutes (NHRI) in Taiwan. He is a distinguished physician, haematologist and vascular biologist with particular interests in atherothrombosis, and eicosanoid biosynthesis and functions in vascular and stem cells. He is recognised internationally for his pioneering work in thrombosis and transcriptional regulation of prostaglandin synthesis genes, and through his role in NHRI has a major role in Taiwan’s national science and health policy.

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