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Prof. Wei-Min DAI, Professor of Chemistry PhD (Kyoto University, Japan, 1990) MSc (Shanghai Institute of  Organic Chemistry, China, 1984) BSc (Hangzhou University, China, 1982) Mailing Address:  Department of Chemistry The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong SAR, China E-mail: chdai@ust.hk Tel. +852-23587365; Fax: +852-23581594

Researcher ID:         B-6981-2008     [CCR] [MNC] [LMES] [WebMail] [mail.zju]

Last updated: 4 January 2010

Biographical Information

Education:
10/1978-7/1982      Department of Chemistry, Hangzhou University (currently Zhejiang University), Hangzhou, China
                                BSc, July, 1982 
8/1982-9/1985        Shanghai Institute of  Organic Chemistry, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, China
                                MSc, December 1984; Supervisor: Prof. Wei-Shan Zhou [photo#1; #2; #3; #4]
10/1985-4/1990      Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Japan
                                PhD, 23 March 1990; Supervisor: Prof. Yoshimitsu Nagao [photos#1; #2]

Appointments:
5/1990-8/1992       Research Associate, Department of Chemistry, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA
                               Prof. K. C. Nicolaou's group, involved in studies on enediynes and taxol. [photos#1; #2; #3]
9/1992-12/1997      Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry,
                               The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
1/1998-6/2007        Associate Professor, Department of Chemistry,
                               The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
7/2007-present        Professor, Department of Chemistry & Center for Cancer Research,
                               The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology 

Professional Services:
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Letters in Drug Design & Discovery (Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.)
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Medicinal Chemistry (Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.)
Editorial Advisory Board Member, Recent Patents on Anti-Cancer Drug Discovery (Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.)
Editorial Advisory Board Member, The Open Cancer Journal (Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.)
Guest Editor, "Natural Products as an Inexhaustible Source for Drug Discovery" Current Medicinal Chemistry, Vol. 10, No. 21, November, 2003 (preface)
Secretary-General, The 3rd International Symposium for Chinese Medicinal Chemists (ISCMC-2002)
Cheung Kong Scholar, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China (2003-)

Research Interests:
Asymmetric catalysis and enantioselective reactions; total synthesis of natural products and biomedically interesting molecules; studies on diversity-oriented synthesis of privileged heterocyclic scaffolds, microwave-assisted solid phase organic synthesis (MASPOS), combinatorial synthesis and applications in chemical biology and chemical genetics.

Memberships:
The American Chemical Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Chinese Chemical Society
Hong Kong Institution of Science
Hong Kong Chemical Society
The Hong Kong Alumni Association of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
Hong Kong International Chemical Sciences Chapter of the American Chemical Society

since 21 May 2001