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TWAS honors two researchers with membership status

Two Taiwanese researchers were elected members of the prestigious Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), while two other local scientists also won top awards from TWAS, academic sources said yesterday.

The announcements were made at the academy’s 25th anniversary meeting in Mexico City from Monday to yesterday, an Academia Sinica press release said.

Yang Pan-chyr (楊泮池) — a professor at National Taiwan University’s college of medicine and an Academia Sinica scholar — was selected to be a TWAS member because of his contributions to understanding lung cancer, Academia Sinica said.

Yang’s group has identified several lung cancer-related genes and biomarkers that may revolutionize lung cancer treatment, Taiwan’ s top research institution said.

Lee Der-tsai (李德財), a distinguished research fellow at the Academia Sinica’s Institute of Information Science, was elected a TWAS member because of his focus on the areas of design and analysis of algorithms, computational geometry, VLSI layout and systems, bioinformatics, digital libraries, software security, Web- based computing and algorithm visualization.

Meanwhile, two other Taiwanese scientists, Shaw Jei-fu (蕭介夫) and Lin Chun-hung (林俊宏), were honored with the 2008 TWAS Prize in Agricultural Sciences and the title of 2008 TWAS Young Affiliate, respectively.

Shaw was awarded for his achievements in three areas — functional genes and plant biotechnology, biocatalysis technologies for produce-based industrial products and functional food, and lipases-related protein engineering and biotechnology.
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