Curriculum Vitae Ming-Daw Tsai, Ph. D

Institute of Biological Chemistry

Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
Address: 128 Academia Road, Section 2, Taipei 115, Taiwan

Phone: +886-2-2785-5696 ext 3020

e-mail: mdtsai@gate.sinica.edu.tw

Homepage: http://www.bc.sinica.edu.tw/MDTsai/

(1972-1974 in compulsory military service)

1974-1978, Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue Univ. (Heinz Floss)
Positions Held
2007 Aug - present Professor, Institute of Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan Univ.

2006 Oct - present Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica

2008 Aug - 2014 Aug Director, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica

2007 Feb - 2014 Director, CBMB Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program

2006 Oct - 2008 Aug Acting Director, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Academia Sinica

2005 Jan - 2008 Aug Director of Functional Genomics, GRC

2004 Jan - 2010 Dec Director, National Core Facilities Office, NRPGM

2003 Nov - 2008 Aug Distinguished Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center

Academia Sinica, Taiwan

2003 Oct – 2007 June Kimberly Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University

1993 Oct - 2007 June Director, Office of Research Campus Chemical Instrument Ctr, OSU

1992 Jan - 2007 June Professor, Department of Biochemistry, OSU

1990 Oct - 2007 June Professor, Department of Chemistry, OSU

1995 Sept - 2003 July Director, Chemistry/Biology Interface Training Program, OSU

1986 Oct - 1990 Sept Associate Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University

1989 Aug - 1990 June Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin,

Madison (with John Markley)

1986 Mar - 1986 Sept. Visiting Professor, University of Lund, Sweden (with Sture Forsen)

1981 July - 1986 Sept Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University

1980 July - 1981 July Assistant Prof of Chemistry, Rutgers Univ. (Newark)

1980 July - 1980 Dec Research Associate, University of Illinois (with Eric Oldfield)

1979 July - 1980 Dec Visiting Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue Univ.

1978 Jan - 1979 June Postdoctoral Associate, Purdue University (with H. G. Floss)
Research Interest
Mechanism of Action of Enzymes Involving Biophosphates

Mechanism of DNA polymerases involved in DNA repair

Structure and Function of FHA domains in DNA damage signaling

Chemical and structural biology

Honors/Awards

1. 
   Glenn L. Jenkins Award for Excellence in Research, Purdue Univ., 1977.
   
2. 
   Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1983-1985
   
3. 
   Faculty Research Award, Ohio State Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1985.
   
4. 
   Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1985-1990.
   
5. 
   Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University, 1992.
   
6. 
   Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1992.
   
7. 
   Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Academic Leadership Program Fellow, 2002-2003.
   
8. 
   Kimberly Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University, 2003-2007.
   
9. 
   Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, PRC, 2003-2006.
   
10. 
    Distinguished Alumnus Award, Purdue University School of Pharmacy, 2008.
    
11. 
    Academician, Academia Sinica, elected 2012.
    
12. 
    Fellow, The World Academy of Science (TWAS), elected 2014.
    

Special Professional Services

1. 
   Symposium Organizer, "Quadrupolar NMR in Biophysical Chemistry", ACS 18th Central Regional Meeting, Bowling Green, June 4, 1986.
   
2. 
   Co-Chairperson, 8th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference, October, 1988.
   
3. 
   NIH Physical Biochemistry Study Section Member, 1988-92.
   
4. 
   Co-chair, Gordon Conference on Enzymes, July 1993.
   
5. 
   Board Member, Chinese American Chemical Society, 1993-96.
   
6. 
   Co-founder, Ohio NMR Consortium, 1995.
   
7. 
   Nominating Committee, American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry, 1997.
   
8. 
   NIH Training Grant Study Section, 1997-01.
   
9. 
   Symposium Organizer, “NMR of Biological Macromolecules”. 31^st Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, June 21-23, 1999.
   
10. 
    Advisory Board, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 1991-present.
    
11. 
    President, Chinese American Chemical Society, 2003.
    
12. 
    Organizer, Frontiers of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry Symposium, Seattle, August 26-29, 2004.
    
13. 
    Board of Consulting Editors, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry, 1998-2006.
    
14. 
    Board of Consulting Editors, Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry Letters, 1998-2006.
    
15. 
    Theme Editor, Current Opinions in Chemical Biology, Volume 7, April 2003.
    
16. 
    Cancer PPG Special Study Section, National Cancer Institute, NIH, October 2-3, 2007.
    
17. 
    Program Chair, International Society for Magnetic Resonance Conference (ISMAR), Kenting, Taiwan, Oct 14-19, 2007.
    
18. 
    President, Taiwan Magnetic Resonance Society, 2007 - present
    
19. 
    Editorial Advisory Board for Biochemistry, January 2009 – present
    
20. 
    International Liason for the Symposium of SCBA, 2009.
    
21. 
    President, Taiwan Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2009-2012.
    
22. 
    Associate Editor, Biochemistry, 2010 – present.
    
23. 
    President, Taiwan Biophysical Society, 2013 – present.
    
24. 
    President, Taiwan Proteomics Society, 2014 – present.
    
25. 
    STRENDA (Standards in Reporting Enzyme Data) Commission, Beilstein Institute of Germany, 2014-present
    
26. 
    Visiting Committee for School of Life Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 2014.
    
27. 
    Chair, Organizing Committee, NMR in Biomolecular Structures, PacifiChem 2015, Hawaii