•Publication Date：11/23/2011
•Source： Taiwan Today
Four Academia Sinica academicians were named new members of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS) Nov. 21, while another scholar at the institute received a TWAS Prize and a researcher was elected a TWAS Young Affiliate.
Chang Wen-chang, elected a TWAS member in Biological Systems and Organisms, has for nearly four decades made significant contributions to the understanding of the functions of prostanoids and unsaturated fatty acid oxidation metabolites.
Meanwhile, Chen Pei-jer, whose research accomplishments include new insights into hepatitis D virus RNA replication and hepatitis B virus carcinogenesis, as well as mechanisms and treatment of viral hepatitis and related liver cancer, was elected in Medical and Health Sciences.
Academician Lee Yuan-pern, elected a member in Chemical Sciences, has contributed greatly to research in spectroscopy, kinetics and dynamics of free radicals.
Elected to the area of Physics was Chang Shih-lin, whose major contributions include developing X-ray multiple diffraction methods to solve X-ray phase problems in crystallography and condensed matter physics, as well as demonstrating the resonance interference of the X-ray Fabry-Perot resonator using dynamical diffraction from crystalline solids.
Cheng Shun-jen of Academia Sinica’s Institute of Mathematics and National Chiao Tung University Vice President Lin Yi-bing were named winners of the TWAS Prize.
At the same time, Lin Keng-hui, an assistant research fellow at the Institute of Physics, was elected a 2011 Young Affiliate, an honor conferred annually on outstanding scientists under the age of 40.
Founded in 1983, TWAS is a nongovernmental organization dedicated to promoting the development of scientific research in less advanced countries. It currently supports nearly 100 research projects in developing nations around the world.
