Ray Wu
| Ray Jui Wu | |
|---|---|
| Native name | Wu Rui / 吴瑞 |
| Born |
August 14, 1928 Beijing, China |
| Died | February 10, 2008 (aged 79) Ithaca, NY, USA |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | Studies on the Mechanisms of Pyrimidine Biosynthesis (1955) |
| Doctoral advisor | D. Wright Wilson |
| Doctoral students | Jack W. Szostak |
Ray Jui Wu (Chinese: 吴瑞; pinyin: Wú Ruì, 14 August 1928 – 10 February 2008) was a China-born American biologist and educator. Wu was a pioneer of plant genetic engineering, and the former Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University.
Wu was the son of Hsien Wu, also a biologist. Wu was born in Beijing in China, his ancestral hometown was Fuzhou of Fujian Province. Wu was educated in the United States and obtained his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955.
Wu did important work in DNA sequencing and genetic engineering, and is regarded as one of founding fathers of plant genetic engineering. Wu also was an active educator, and created the CUSBEA (China-US Biochemistry Examination and Application). In 1999, at Cornell, Wu donated US$500,000 to establish the Ray Wu Graduate Fellowship in Molecular Biology and Genetics to support biology graduate students.
Wu spent most of his scientific career at Cornell. Wu was an Academician of Academia Sinica (Taiwan), and a Foreign Member of Chinese Academy of Engineering. Wu's former student Jack W. Szostak was awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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