Background
Kan, Yuet Wai was born on June 11, 1936 in Hong Kong. Son of Tong-Po and Lai-Wai (Li) Kan. came to the United States, 1960.
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geneticist university professor
Kan, Yuet Wai was born on June 11, 1936 in Hong Kong. Son of Tong-Po and Lai-Wai (Li) Kan. came to the United States, 1960.
Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Medicine, U. Hong Kong, 1958; Doctor of Science, U. Hong Kong, 1980; Doctor of Science (honorary), University Hong Kong, 1987; Doctor of Science (honorary), Chinese U., Hong Kong, 1981; Doctor of Medicine (honorary), University Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, 1981.
He is the current Louis K. Diamond Professor of Hematology and the head of the Division of Molecular Medicine and Diagnostics at the University of California, San Francisco. He is the former President of the American Society of Hematology (ASH). (in 1980) both from the University of Hong Kong Faculty of Medicine.
He undertook his medical training at Queen Mary Hospital, then went to United States of America for further study.
Since 1976, Kan has been a research investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kan served as the president of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) in 1990.
Kan is currently a professor in the Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Kan is regarded as a pioneer of applying molecular biology and genetics into clinical medicine.
Kan was the first to establish that a single deoxyribonucleic acid mutation could lead to a human disease, and the first to diagnose a human disease by using deoxyribonucleic acid. Kan has made many fundamental contributions to our understanding of human blood diseases.
Kan was the first to discover the gene deletion in human alpha-thalassemia. He was the first to discover a point-mutation causing human beta-thalassemia. With Golbus" help, he was the first to carry out prenatal diagnosis (for a haemoglobinopathy).
Kan is best known for his groundbreaking works in sickle cell and thalassemia.
He is the first person who used fetal deoxyribonucleic acid diagnosis techniques to study these diseases. Kan"s work led to the innovation of deoxyribonucleic acid diagnosis.
Kan discovered deoxyribonucleic acid polymorphism, which nowadays is widely used in genetic analysis for human diseases. Fellow, Royal College of Physicians.
Fellow Royal College Physicians (London), Royal Society (London), Third World Academy Sciences, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member National Academy Sciences United States of America, Academy Sinica (Taiwan), Chinese Academy Sciences (foreign member), Association American Physicians, American Society Hematology (president 1990), Society Chinese Bioscientists in American (president 1998-1999).
Married Alvera Lorraine Limauro, May 10, 1964. Children— Susan Jennifer, Deborah Ann.