Tang K. Tang

Tang K. Tang is a Taiwanese biomedical researcher who is currently the vice president of the Academia Sinica.

Career
Tang studied biology at Tunghai University from 1974 to 1978, and pursued a master's of science degree from National Yang-Ming University in microbiology and immunology between 1981 and 1983. He holds a PhD in Human Genetics (1988) from Yale University, where he also completed postdoctoral research (1989). Subsequently, he became a researcher at the Academia Sinica. In 2022 Tang was elected a Member of the Academia Sinica, where he is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.

He also is a member of the Program in Molecular Medicine, a collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica.

He co-holds patents with Academia Sinica research colleagues.