Chi-Huey Wong

Chi-Huey Wong 翁啟惠

Born	(1948-08-03) August 3, 1948 (age 68) Yizhu, Tainan County, Taiwan (now Chiayi County)
Nationality	Taiwan United States
Fields	Chemistry chemical biology
Institutions	Texas A&M University The Scripps Research Institute Academia Sinica (Taiwan) National Sun Yat-sen University
Alma mater	National Taiwan University Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Notable awards	The IUPAC International Carbohydrate Award (1994) The American Chemical Society Harrison Howe Award (1998) The International Enzyme Engineering Award (1999) The American Chemical Society Claude S. Hudson Award (1999) The Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Award, USA (2000) The American Chemical Society Award for Creative Work in Synthetic Organic Chemistry (2005) The F. A. Cotton Medal for Excellence in Chemical Research (2008) The American Chemical Society Arthur C. Cope Award (2012) The Wolf Prize in Chemistry (2014) Member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Chi-Huey Wong (Chinese: 翁啟惠; born August 3, 1948) is a Taiwanese-born American biochemist. He is a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California, and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan . His expertise is bioorganic and synthetic chemistry, especially in carbohydrate chemistry and chemical biology.

He was elected as a member of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Science in 1996, United States National Academy of Science in 2002.

Wong received his BS and MS degrees from National Taiwan University in Taipei, Taiwan.

In 1982, Wong earned his PhD degree in Chemistry from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in the United States, where he carried out research under the supervision of George M. Whitesides. He continued on as a postdoctoral researcher in the same laboratory after Whitesides had relocated to Harvard University.