Wah Chiu (Chinese: 趙華) is a Hong Kong-born American biophysicist, currently the Wallenberg-Bienenstock Chair Professor in the department of bioengineering, department of microbiology and immunology and the Photon Science Directorate of SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory at Stanford University.
[1] He was formerly the Distinguished Service Professor and the Alvin Romansky Chair Professor at Baylor College of Medicine[2][3] where he was the founding director of the National Center for Biomolecular Imaging,[4] and has been active in the new cryo-EM techniques allowing much higher-resolution structures of large molecular complexes such as viruses [5][6][7] and chaperonin.
[8][9] Chiu was born in Hong Kong, and attended Pui Ching Middle School.
He was elected an academician of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 2008 and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences in 2012.
[11] He has also received several honors including the Distinguished Science Award from the Microscopy Society of America[12] and the Honorary Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of Helsinki, Finland in 2014.