Chiaho Shih (; born 9 January 1950) is a Distinguished Research Fellow in the Division of Infectious Disease & Immunology, Institute of Biomedical Sciences,
Academia Sinica
Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...
in
Taiwan.
His research is in the area of
Molecular virology,
Viral hepatitis and
Hepatoma, and
Cancer.
He is best known for his discovery of the first human
oncogene Ras in 1982 while as a graduate student in the lab of
Robert Weinberg at
MIT, which is partially documented in
Natalie Angier's book ''
Natural Obsessions
''Natural Obsessions'' is a book written by American science author Natalie Angier published in 1988. It chronicles a year in the laboratories of two prominent cancer biologists during a period where there was a race to discover and characterize so ...
'', about her year spent in Weinberg's lab. Also, the discovery is documented in
Siddhartha Mukherjee's book ''
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer''.
Shih was previously a professor at the
University of Texas Medical Branch and the
University of Pennsylvania.
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References
Taiwanese virologists
Cancer researchers
Taiwanese immunologists
Academia Sinica
1950 births
Living people
University of Texas Medical Branch faculty
University of Pennsylvania faculty
Massachusetts Institute of Technology alumni
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