Savio Lau Ching Woo

Background

Woo, Savio Lau Ching was born on December 20, 1944 in Shaghai, China. Son of Kwok-Cheung and Fun-sin (Yu) Woo.

Education

Graduate training

Career

Assistant professor cell biology Baylor College Medicine, Houston, 1975-1978, associate professor, 1979-1983, director center for gene therapy, 1991-1996, professor, 1984-1996, professor Institute MolecularGenetics, 1985-1996, director graduate training program cell and molecular biology, 1987-1994. Associate investigator Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Bethesda, Maryland., 1977-1979, investigator, 1979-1996. Professor, director Institute for Gene Therapy and Molecular Medicine Mount Sinai School Medicine, New York City, 1996.

Organizer, 1st chairman Gordon Conference on Molecular Genetics, 1985.

Company-organizer Searle-University of California at Los Angeles Symposium, 1986. Organizer 3d Society Chinese Bioscientists in American International Symposium, 1990.

Consultant Cooper Laboratory, Palo Alto, California, 1982-1984, Zymos Corporation, Seattle, 1982-1986. Senior science advisor Molecular Therapeutics, Incorporated., West Haven, 1986-1992.

Special advisor Gene Medicine, Incorporated., Woodlands, Texas, 1992-1996.

Achievements

• Savio Lau Ching Woo has been listed as a noteworthy molecular medical geneticist by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Member editorial board deoxyribonucleic acid, 1983, American Journal Human Genetics, 1986-1989, Genomics, 1987-1995, Biochemistry, 1988-1994. Member of the board of directors March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, Metropolitan Houston chapter, 1979-1987.

Connections

Married Emily H. Chang, July 14, 1973. Children: Audrey Creative Commons, Brian Y.Y. Bachelor of Science, Loyola College.

Father:

Kwok-Cheung Woo

Mother:

Fun-sin (Yu) Woo

Spouse:

Emily H. Chang

child:

Brian Y.Y. Bachelor of Science Woo

child:

Loyola College Woo

child:

Audrey Creative Commons Woo