Professor Chung-I Wu obtained his Ph.D degree in Population Genetics from the University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1982. During 1986 - 1991, he was an assistant and then associate professor in the Department of Biology, University of Rochester. In 1991, he moved to the University of Chicago as an associate professor in the Department Ecology and Evolution. In 1998, he became a professor and served as the chair of the department until 2006. Professor Wu was elected as the member of Academia Sinica in 2004. In 2008, as a ‘1000 talents’ (A) Professor, he was appointed as the director of Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences until May 2014. Currently, he is leading the Major Research Plan of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the 973 Program. He is also the principle investigator of the Key Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Natural Science Foundation of China. Professor Chung-I Wu’ research interest focuses on molecular evolutionary.

cancer cell proliferation, tumor cell populations, population genetics