Ming-Jer Tsai ( Chinese: 蔡明哲) is a Taiwanese cell biologist.
Tsai was born in Qingshui, Taichung, the third of six children, and lived there until the age of 10. [1] He attended middle school in Kaohsiung, then moved to Taipei for high school and college, [1] graduating from National Taiwan University in 1966. [1] [2] Subsequently, he relocated to the United States, earning a doctorate at the University of California, Davis in 1971. [2] [3] Tsai was a postdoctoral researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center until 1973, when he began teaching at Baylor University. [2] [3] He held Baylor's Charles C. Bell Jr. Professorship in Cell Biology from 1998 until his retirement. [2] [3] Tsai was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 2010. [2]
Ming-Jer Tsai ( Chinese: 蔡明哲) is a Taiwanese cell biologist.
Tsai was born in Qingshui, Taichung, the third of six children, and lived there until the age of 10. [1] He attended middle school in Kaohsiung, then moved to Taipei for high school and college, [1] graduating from National Taiwan University in 1966. [1] [2] Subsequently, he relocated to the United States, earning a doctorate at the University of California, Davis in 1971. [2] [3] Tsai was a postdoctoral researcher at MD Anderson Cancer Center until 1973, when he began teaching at Baylor University. [2] [3] He held Baylor's Charles C. Bell Jr. Professorship in Cell Biology from 1998 until his retirement. [2] [3] Tsai was elected a member of Academia Sinica in 2010. [2]