Dr. Chi-Huey Wong
Scripps Family Chair Professor
Department of Chemistry
10550 North Torrey Pines Road
Mail Drop: BCC338
Tel: (858) 784-2487
wong@scripps.edu
Ella Blanc
Lab Administrative Coordinator
Tel: (858) 784-8377
wongadmin@scripps.edu
B.S. (1966-1970) and M.S. (1975-1977) in Biochemical Sciences, National Taiwan University
Ph.D. in Chemistry (1979-1982), Department of Chemistry, MIT
Postdoctoral Fellow (1982-1983), Department of Chemistry, Harvard University
1983-1989: Assistant Professor (1983–1986), Associate Professor (1986–1987), and Professor (1987–1989) of Chemistry, Texas A&M University.
1989-2006: Professor and Ernest W. Hahn Chair in Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute.
1991-1999: Head, Frontier Research Program on Glycotechnology, RIKEN, Japan.
1996-2006: Member, the Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology, The Scripps Research Institute.
2003-2006: Director and Distinguished Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2006-2016: President, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2016-2019: Distinguished Research Fellow, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
2006-2019: Professor of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute.
2019-Present: Scripps Family Chair Professor, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute (with joint appointment at Academia Sinica as Distinguished Research Fellow).
1984: | 188th ACS National Meeting |
1985: | NATO Advanced Research Workshop |
1986: | US/Japan Biotechnology Conference, Japan. International Symposium on “Biocatalysis in Organic Media,” Wageningen, the Netherlands; 5 th International Symposium on Life Science: Prospects for Enzyme Technology, Kyoto |
1987: | The Pittsburg–Cleveland Catalysis Society Meeting: Frontiers in Catalysis. Gordon Research Conference on Organic Reactions and Processes; The 18 th Annual NSF Workshop on Organic Synthesis and Natural Products Chemistry; The 87 th American Society of Microbiology Meeting, Atlanta. 194 th ACS National Meeting, New Orleans. Biotechnica ‘87, Hannover |
1988: | Symposium on Biotransformation, The Society of General Microbiology, University of Southampton, UK (2/2); Symposium on Bioorganic Synthesis, Swedish Academy of Sciences (2/3). ACS Regional Meeting, 22 nd MARM Symposium on Organic Synthesis (5/24); ACS central regional meeting, Symposium on New Synthetic Strategy, West Virginia (6/2); Gordon Research Conference on Stereochemistry, New Port (7/4); Conference on Biocatalytic Synthesis of Organic Compounds, New York (8/8); Symposium on Molecular Recognition Phenomena, Royal Society of Chemistry and Swiss Chemical Society (9/11) |
1989: | French–American Chemical Society 1st Meeting, Paris (6/5–6/8) |
1990: | University of Illinois, Frontier in Enzyme Chemistry (3/17); Texas A&M IUCCP Program (3/19); ACS National Meeting, Boston, Division of Carbohydrate Chemistry (4/25); Gordon Conference on Natural Products (7/22); IUMS Congress, Osaka (9/16); Society for Complex Carbohydrates, La Jolla (10/12) |
1991: | US–Japan Conference on Biotechnology, Hawaii (1/6); The 13 th Annual Conference on Clinical Laboratory Molecular Analysis (2/14); Frontiers in Biomedical Research, Annenberg Center, Palm Springs (2/18); Merck lecturer, University of Alberta, Chemistry (3/18); US–Japan Conference on Selectivity in Synthetic and Bioorganic Chemistry, Tokyo (6/3); ASM Biotechnology Conference, New York (6/27); ACS National Meeting/Fourth North American Congress (8/28); European Peptide Society, Enzymes in Peptide Synthesis, IEC-Bogensee, Germany (9/2); Enzyme Engineering, Hawaii (9/25); International Biotechnology Conference, San Francisco (10/27); Rhone-Poulenc’s 14 th Scientific Sessions, Frontiers in Chemistry and Biology, Paris (11/19); International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry, University of Chicago (11/22) |
1992: | Symposium on Enzymes in organic synthesis, IUPAC meeting in New Delhi, India (1/6); NATO Meeting on Microbial Reagents in Organic Synthesis (3/23); Symposium on Enzymes in organic chemistry: Synthetic and mechanistic aspects, The Organic Chemistry Division, The Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (4/9); Monsanto lecturer, Purdue University (5/4); International Workshop on New Aspects of Biocatalysis, Kyoto University (6/12); 4 th International SCBA Symposium, Singapore (6/14); IUPAC International Carbohydrate Symposium, Paris (7/5–7/10); Syntex lecturer, Colorado State University (11/19–11/20); Symposium on the Preparation of Enantiomerically Pure Compounds, Societe Royale de Chimie, Belgium (10/22–10/23); International Symposium on Gangliosides, Tokyo (11/5) |
1993: | Merck-Frosst lecturer, University of Victoria (1/21); International Symposium on Bioorganic Chemistry, Interlaken, Switzerland (3/31–4/2); the 28 th ESF/EUCHEM Conference on Stereochemistry-Burgenstock (5/2–5/8); Harvard University Mini-Symposium in Organic Chemistry (5/17); Complex Carbohydrate for Drug Research, Denmark (6/6–6/10); Carbohydrate Gordon Research Conference (7/5–7/8); Chiron lecturer, UC-Berkeley (9/7) |
1994: | Bristol-Myers Squibb Distinguished Lecturer, Syracuse University, New York (4/5); Sino-American Symposium on Asymmetric Synthesis, Taiwan (4/8); New Perspective in drug design, Thurnberry, Scotland (4/11); CHI’s Glycotechnology Conference, San Diego (5/16); Organizer and Plenary Lecturer, Table Ronde on Biomolecular Recognition and Catalysis, Paris (7/8–7/9); International Carbohydrate Award lecturer, International Carbohydrate Symposium, Ottawa (7/18); IASOC Conference, Ischia, Italy (9/25); W. S. Johnson Symposium in Organic Chemistry, Stanford University (10/7); 6 th Annual Glaxo-UNC Frontiers in Chemistry and Medicine Symposium (11/7) |
1995: | International Symposium on Protein Structure and Function, U. Exeter, UK (4/19); Contemporary Challenges in Carbohydrate Chemistry, 1995 UM/PD Symposium, Ann Arbor (4/28); Merck lecturer, University of Cambridge, England (5/10); Tetrahedron Symposium, Kyoto (5/26); The 10 th Nozaki Conference, Nagoya (6/15); International Heterocycle Chemistry, Taipei (8/7); Nobel Symposium on Catalytic Asymmetric Synthesis, Stockholm (9/3); The 7 th International Symposium on Chiral Discrimination (ISCD), Jerusalem (11/12) |
1996: | Swiss Chemical Society (5/23); IUPAC Conference on Organic Synthesis, Amsterdam (6/30); Keynote speaker, the 4 th International Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists, Hong Kong (4/5); Wyeth-Ayerst lecturer, Columbia University (4/19); Keynote speaker, the Royal Society of Chemistry Annual Meeting, Perthshire, Scotland (9/12); ACS Princeton Organic Chemistry Symposium (9/27) |
1997: | Israel Chemical Society (2/3); Distinguished Visiting Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Florida (2/12); the Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Division (3/24); ACS William Johnson Symposium (4/14); Keynote lecturer, 2 nd Carbohydrate Bioengineering, La Rochelle, France (4/15); C. H. Li Memorial lecturer, Academia Sinica, Taipei (5/2); 9 th European Carbohydrate Symposium (6/11); 35 th ACS National Organic Chemistry Symposium (6/22); Sponsored lecturer, 6 th International Symposium on the synthesis and application of isotopes and isotopically labeled compounds, Philadelphia (9/14); Frontier in Chemical Research Program, Texas A&M University (10/13) |
1998: | Allelix lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Toronto, (5/7); 26 th National Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, Richmond, Virginia, (6/15); 20 th Japanese Carbohydrate Symposium (7/15); ACS Symposium on Asymmetric synthesis of Fluoroorganic Compounds, Boston (8/23); Tetrahedron Prize Symposium, Boston (8/26); The 17 th International Symposium on the Life Sciences, Kyoto (11/4) |
1999: | Paul Gassman lecturer, Department of Chemistry, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (6/1); The 37 th IUPAC Congress, Berlin (8/14); The 1999 Naff Symposium on Carbohydrates and Cell Recognition (4/16); Enzyme Engineering XV (10/10). Frontiers in Bioorganic Chemistry 2000, Taipei (10/29) |
2000: | The Knud Lind Larsen Symposium on Chirality, Danish Academy of Technical Sciences (1/27); The Eighth International Kyoto Conference on New Aspects of Organic Chemistry (IKCOC-8), Kyoto (7/11); the Gordon Conference on Green Chemistry, Connecticut (7/18); International Carbohydrate Conference, Hamburg (8/22); The Novartis lecturer, Budapest (10/22); International Chemical Congress of Pacific Basin Societies, Honolulu (12/18) |
2001: | the Royal Society of Chemistry Carbohydrate Group, Dublin, Ireland (4/4); the International Conference on Green Chemistry, Wales Swansea, UK (4/6); Gordon Research Conference on Bioorganic Chemistry, New Hampshire (6/17); Enzyme Engineering XVI Conference, Potsdam, Germany (10/7); Robert A. Welch Foundation Conference on Chemistry for the 21 st Century, Houston (10/29); Merck lecturer, Wayne State University (11/4) |
2002: | International Conference on Industrial Applications of Biocatalysis, San Diego (3/21); Health Care Ventures Scientific Advisory Board Retreat, Palm Beach (4/10); First ICI Conference on Contemporary Asymmetric Catalysis (9/12); The Merck lecturer, University of Cambridge, UK (9/22). IUPAC Conference on Natural Products, Florence, Italy (7/29) |
2003: | Treat B. Johnson Lecture, Yale University (2/19); International Bioinspiring Conference, Haifa, Israel (12/8); International Enzyme Engineering Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico (11/9) |
2004: | 3 rd International Proteomics Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (5/17); Ralph and Helen Oesper Symposium, University of Cincinnati (10/15); The 4 th Tateshima Conference in Organic Chemistry, Tokyo, Japan (11/12); Yousei University lectureship, Seoul, Korea (11/16); International Symposium on Current Therapeutics Development for Infectious Diseases, Taipei, Taiwan (12/16) |
2005: | Keynote lecturer, 3 rd Annual Conference on Glycomics–Carbohydrates in Drug Development, San Diego (3/21); American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMS), San Diego (4/2); Wyeth Ayerst lecturer, University of Pennsylvania (4/12); Arnold O. Beckman lecturer, California Institute of Technology (5/18); Commissariat a L’energie Atomique u Centre de Sacly, Paris, France (6/27); Tetrahedron Symposium, Bordeaux, France (6/28); Tetrahedron Prize Symposium, 2005 American Chemical Society Meeting, Washington D.C. (8/29); Royal Society of Chemistry-Fluroine Group, Oxford, UK (9/1–9/2); Harry Day lecturer, Indiana University (9/14) |
2006: | Smets Chair Award, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (3/13-3/14); Keynote speaker, CHI’s 4 th Annual Glycomics and Carbohydrates in Drug Development, San Diego (3/23–3/24); Keynote lecturer, CACS 25 th Anniversary Symposium, Atlanta (3/27); Trends in Organic Chemistry: Enzymatic Synthesis, Stockholm (9/4); Keynote speaker, Joint third AOHUPO and Fourth International Structural Biology and Functional Genomics Conference, Singapore (12/4-12/7) |
2007: | Novartis Lecturer, Columbia University (1/29); Claude S. Hudson Award Symposium, 233 th ACS National Meeting, Chicago (3/25); Organic Chemistry—Present & Future, International Symposium Organized in Honor of Prof. Léon Ghosez, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (4/10-4/13); 24 th Herbert C. Brown Lecture, Purdue University (4/19); Gordon Research Conferences—Carbohydrates, Tilton School, New Hampshire (6/17); Tetrahedron Symposium, Berlin (6/28); International Symposium on Molecular Immunology of Complex Carbohydrates, Academia Sinica, Taipei (7/9); Eli Lilly Lecture, Yale University (9/19); The 4 th Takeda Science Foundation Symposium on Pharma Sciences, Tokyo (12/3) |
2008: | The 10th CRSI (Chemical Research Society of India) National Symposium—Honorary Fellow Award & Lecture, Bangalore, India (2/1~2/3); Monte Jade Annual Conference—Dinner Keynote Speech, Santa Clara Convention Center, CA (3/8); The 4 th Symposium: Innovation COE Program for Future Drug Discovery and Medical Care, Hokkaido University, Japan (3/14); Cotton Medal Symposium, Texas A & M University (3/24~3/26); Joint 7 th Human Genome Organization-Pacific Meeting and the 8 th Asia Pacific Conference on Human Genetics, Cebu, the Philippines (4/2~4/5); ASBMB Meeting, San Diego (4/5~4/9); International Congress on Bioactive Molecules and the 3 rd International Symposium on Medicinal and Aromatic Plants, Oujda, Morocco (5/28~5/29); IUPAC ICOS-17, the 17 th IUPAC International Conference on Organic Synthesis, Daejeon, Korea (6/24~6/26); Tetrahedron Symposium, Berkeley, California (7/22~7/26); Howard Lectures, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia (8/6~8/8); Tetrahedron Prize Symposium and the 236 th ACS Meeting, Philadelphia (8/17~8/22); NRC-NSC Eminent Researchers Program (9/2~9/6); EMBL Conference on Chemical Biology 2008, Heidelberg, Germany (10/8~10/11); 50th Anniversary of Microbial Chemistry Research Foundation, Tokyo (10/30); ISOR-2008, International Symposium on Organic Reactions, Taiwan (11/23) |
2009: | Harvard Business School Asia Business Conference, Boston (2/14~2/15); Scripps Scientific Governors Inaugural Symposium, Florida (2/26~2/27); The 237 th ACS Meeting and Claude Hudson Award in Carbohydrate Chemistry Symposium, Salt Lake City (3/22~3/26); SAPA-Monte Jade Annual Conference, New England and 11th SAPA-NE (Sino-American Pharmaceutical Professionals Association) Annual Conference, Philadelphia, (5/16); TAITA 2009 Annual Conference, San Francisco (5/23); Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany (5/26~5/27); Final Symposium of the SFB 470: From Glycobiology to Glycochemistry, University of Hamburg (5/28~5/29); The 238th ACS Meeting, Washington D.C. (8/16~8/20); 11th Conference on Chitin and Chitosan, Taiwan (9/7); The 1st Hokkaido University-Academia Sinica Joint Symposium and The 7th Symposium for Future Drug Discovery and Medical Care, Hokkaido, Japan (10/7~10/8); The 3 rd International Symposium on Bio-Inspired Engineering, Taiwan (10/21~10/23), Peiking University (10/22~10/26); City University of Hong Kong and Chinese University of Hong Kong (11/9~11/11) |
2010: | 7th International Symposium for Chinese Medicinal Chemists (ISCMC-2010), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (2/1~2/5); XII International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections, Taipei (3/11~3/14); Conference of Presidents of Academies and Scholarly Societies: in celebration of the 50 th anniversary of The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Israel (3/14~3/20); EMBL Conference, Hamburg (5/5~5/7); The 21st Banyu Life Science International Sendai Symposium, Sendai, Japan (6/5); Konstanz Symposium Chemical Biology, Konstanz, Germany (6/16~6/18); Humboldt University, Germany (6/24); The Inaugural (1st) International Conference on Molecular and Functional Catalysis, Singapore (7/11~7/15); 25th International Carbohydrate Symposium(ICS 2010), Tokyo, Japan (8/1~8/6); the 240th ACS National Meeting, Boston (8/22~8/26); Taiwan Swiss Biomedical Symposium, Taiwan (8/31~9/2); Univ. of Notre Dame Reilly Lectureship (9/13~9/15); UCSD/Taiwan Symposium on Frontiers in Biosciences, San Diego (9/16~9/17); 11th Int'l Symposium for Chinese Organic Chemists, Taiwan (10/24~10/26); RIKEN Chemical Biology Symposium (10/26~10/28); UC Berkeley Green Chemistry Seminar (12/6) |
2011: | The 76th ICS (Israel Chemical Society) Meeting, Israel (2/9~2/10); Frontiers in Biomedical Research Symposium, Palm Spring (2/20~2/23); Infectious Disease Research Institute, Seattle (3/1); 2011 R. Bryan Miller Symposium, University of California at Davis (3/3~3/4); The 241 st ACS Meeting and the Claude S. Hudson Award Symposium, Anaheim (3/27~3/31); University of Namur, Belgium (4/8); European Young Investigator Workshop on Carbohydrate Chemistry: From Synthesis to Applications, Lyon, France (4/11~4/15); The 9th Carbohydrate Bioengineering Meeting (CBM9), Lisbon, Portugal (5/15~5/18); 2011 Keystone Symposium on Pathogenesis of Influenza: Virus-Host Interactions, Hong Kong (5/23~5/28); The 21st International Symposium on Glycoconjugates, Vienna, Austria (8/21-8/26); The 31st Naito Conference on Glycan Expression and Regulation, Sapporo, Japan (9/13~9/16); International Symposium on Cancer Translational Research, Taipei (11/19~11/20); The 8th AFMC International Medicinal Chemistry Symposium, Tokyo, Japan (11/29~12/2) |
2012: | The 243 rd ACS Meeting, San Diego (3/25~3/29); The 244 th ACS Meeting, Philadelphia (8/19~8/23); Taiwan-UK Conference on Life Sciences, Oxford, England (9/1~9/2); Sialoglyco 2012 International Symposium, Taipei (9/9); 13th FAOBMB Congress, Bangkok (11/25~11/26) |
2013: | 7th Glycan Forum, Berlin, Germany (3/20~3/22); 2013 Boston Taiwanese Biotechnology Symposium, Boston, USA (6/15); The 17th European Carbohydrate Symposium (EuroCarb 17), Tel Aviv, Israel (7/7~7/11); The Solvay Conference, Brussels, Belgium (10/16~10/19); 4th Asian-Oceanian Conference on Green and Sustainable Chemistry (AOC-4 GSC), Taipei, Taiwan (11/4); From Molecules to Medicine, the first Israel – Taiwan Life Science Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (12/9~12/11) |
2014: | 27th International Carbohydrate Symposium, Bangalore, India (1/12~1/17); 7th General Assembly and International Conference of Asian Pacific Organization for Cancer Prevention, Taipei (3/21); Sialoglyco 2014 Meeting, Australia (9/7~9/10); 15th IUBMB-24th FAOBMB-TSBMB International Conference, Taipei (10/21~10/26); 2014 Joint Meeting of Society for Glycobiology and Japanese Society of Carbohydrate Research, Honolulu, Hawaii (11/16~11/19) |
2015: | The 249 th ACS Meeting, Denver, Colorado, USA (3/22~3/26); SCBA Symposium, Taipei , Taiwan (6/26~6/29); The 250 th ACS Meeting, Boston, USA (8/16~8/20); Glyco23 Congress, Croatia (9/15~9/20); 2nd Shanghai Tech-SIAIS Bioforum, Shanghai (11/10~11/12); ASCB (American Society for Cell Biology) Annual Meeting ,San Diego (12/12) |
2016: | The Einstein Lecturer, Israel Academy of Sciences (3/14); The 251 st ACS Meeting, San Diego (3/16~3/17); The 251 st ACS Meeting, San Diego, USA (3/16~3/17); AAI (American Association of Immunologists) Satellite Meeting, Seattle (5/14); ASCO Annual Meeting, Chicago, USA (6/3~6/7); 23rd Pacific Science Congress, Taipei, Taiwan (6/13~6/17). ACBC (4th Asian Chemical Biology Conference), Kaohsiung, Taiwan (11/28). Special IUBMB Meeting: Frontiers in Glycoscience: Host-Pathogen Interactions (12/12) |
2017: | Academia Sinica-Osaka Bilateral Symposium, Taipei, Taiwan (10/12). EMBO Event, Taipei, Taiwan (11/20); IUBMB Special Meeting on “Frontiers in Glycoscience: Oncology”, Taipei, Taiwan (12/4) |
2018: | Bowei Science Conference (BSC): From Chemistry to Material Design, Hsin-Chu, Taiwan (1/5~1/7). Israel-Taiwan Life Science Conference, Taipei, Taiwan (11/14~11/15). 10th ACGG Conference, Tainan, Taiwan (11/18~11/21) |
2019: | 2019 Gordon Research Conference (GRC) on Carbohydrates (6/23~6/28), Hong Kong |
2020: | Asia-Pacific Federation of Pharmacology (APFP) Meeting (5/3~5/6) (Canceled). PacifiChem, Hawaii (Dec 15-20) (Cancelled). |
2021: | Carbohydrates Gordon Research Conference (6/20-6/25), New Hampshire, USA; International Glycoconjugate Symposium, Taipei (Aug 29-Sept 3) (Canceled). The 14th Meeting of the Asia-Pacific Federation of Pharmacologists (APFP) (11/26-11/29). Andrew University (Sept 23). Stanford University, Chemistry (Oct 6). Welch Chemical Conference (Oct 26). |
2022: | ACS National Meeting, San Diego (March 22); 30th International Carbohydrate Symposium, Brazil (July 12). |
2023 | ACS National Meeting, Indianapolis, USA (March 28); International Glycoconjugate Conference, Taipei (August 27). Tetrahedron Symposium, Gothenburg, Sweden (June 27-30); The Federation of Asian Chemical Societies Foundation Lecture, Istanbul, Turkey (July 9-14); ACS National Meeting, San Francisco (August 13-17). |
Chemical Biology and Synthetic Chemistry: development of new tools and methods for understanding the role of glycosylation in biology and disease progression; chemo-enzymatic synthesis of complex carbohydrates and glycoproteins; design of small-molecule probes for the study of carbohydrate-mediated biological recognition; programmable one-pot oligosaccharide synthesis and glycan microarray development; vaccine design and drug discovery against infectious diseases and cancers. H-index 154.
C.-H. Wong and G. M. Whitesides, “Enzymes in Synthetic Organic Chemistry,” Pergamon Press, 1994.
Famulok, E.-L. Winnacker, C.-H. Wong, “Combinatorial Chemistry in Biology,” Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1999.
Cornils, W. A. Herrmann, R. Schlögl, C.-H. Wong, “Catalysis from A to Z–A Concise Encyclopedia,” Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 1999.
C.-H Wong: “Carbohydrate-based Drug Discovery” Vols. I & II, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany, 2003.
C.-H. Wong and P. G. Wang, eds. “Carbohydrates, Nucleosides and Nucleic Acids.” Comprehensive Natural Products II: Chemistry and Biology (“CONAP II”), Vol. 6, 10 vols. Elsevier, Missouri, USA, 2009.
N. Taniguchi, T. Endo, G. W. Hart, P. H. Seeberger, C.-H. Wong, eds. “Glycoscience: Biology and Medicine”, Springer Japan, 2014.