Prof. Dr. Yau-Huei Wei

Dr. Yau-Huei Wei graduated in 1974 from the Department of Agricultural Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. He started studies of mitochondria with late Professor Tsoo E. King in 1976 and earned his PhD degree in 1980 from the Department of Chemistry, State University of New York at Albany, New York, USA. He returned to Taiwan after postdoctoral training at Departments of Chemistry and Physics, SUNY at Albany. He was recruited as an associate professor in 1981-1985 at the Department of Biochemistry, National Yang-Ming Medical College, Taiwan. He was promoted to professor in 1985 and served as the chairman of the department until 1991. He also served as the Director of the Common Instrumentation Center (1986-1989) and the Dean of Student Affairs (1989- 1991) of the College. Dr. Wei was appointed as the Director General, Department of Life Sciences, National Science Council of Taiwan, 2001-2005. He served as the Dean of Academic Affairs (2006-2008) and was a distinguished professor (2007-2009) of National Yang-Ming University. In August 2009, Dr. Wei was appointed as the President of Mackay Medical College until his retirement in July 2017. He has been actively participated in the promotion of local and international collaborations in biomedical research and mitochondrial medicine. Dr. Wei was the permanent delegate to the General Assembly of IUBMB from The Taiwan Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.