Ru-Chih Chow Huang (Chinese: 黃周汝吉; pinyin: Huáng Zhōu Rǔjí; born 1932) is a Taiwanese-American biology professor at Johns Hopkins University.
[9] In the interview recognizing her paper as a Citation Classic, Huang said, "The work ... was done when little was known about the molecular approach to gene expression.
The term chromatin as an interphase state of chromosome was beginning to be accepted as a biochemical working usage.
[11] Huang is co-founder and Chief Scientific Advisor of Erimos Pharmacueticals, LLC of Houston, TX.
This firm is developing her recently discovered mutation-insensitive antiviral and anticancer compounds which are derivatives of the plant lignan NDGA.
In an article in 2001, her son is quoted about her wedding day at Virginia Tech as follows, '"The same day she received her degree, she changed into a wedding dress in a Shell gas station in Blacksburg, Va., and they got married in the university president's office, with just the president and two witnesses,"said Suber Huang.