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Jang-Yen Wu (吳政彥)

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Jang-Yen Wu (吳政彥)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Jang-Yen Wu
  • Chinese: 吳政彥
  • Era: 1942
  • Geography: Taiwan/ Tainan
  • Core roles: scientist, professor
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

City of Hope Medical Center Assistant, Associate, Senior Scientist and Section Head (1970-1975)

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1963 — Bachelor, Chemistry
  • Univ. of California, San Francisco Medical Center — 1968 — Ph.D.
  • UCLA — 1968-70 — Post-doctoral training

Employment

  • City of Hope Medical Center (腦神經研究) — 1970-75 — Duarte, Assistant, Associate, Senior Scientist and Section Head
  • Baylor College of Medicine, Houston — 1975-83 — Professor
  • Pennsylvania State University, Hershey Medical Center — 1983-89 — Professor
  • University of Kansas, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology — 1989-95 — Professor and Chairman

Role in the Community

  • Among those who actively supported Rev. Jonah Chang (張瑞雄)‘s church-planting of First Presbyterian Church of Los Angeles (洛杉磯台灣基督長老教會 / Olympic教會) from the first gathering on 1970-08-09 at Centenary United Methodist Church (Normandie Ave & 35th St, LA) — alongside 高光民、陳昭俊、葉思雅、李宗派、許文彬、王春雄、賴信雄 — per Our Journeys 231（洛杉磯教會創會史）. The church was recognized by PCUSA on 1973-05-20 as the first Taiwanese church in the US accepted as a formal congregation by a mainstream US denomination, and took over the former Wilshire Crest Presbyterian Church building in 1974.

  • HOLD: romanization conflict — TAH/TAHS “Jang-Yen Wu” vs the English Our Journeys 231 text “Chen-Yen Wu (吳政彥)” (Our Journeys 231 (EN)); Chinese name 吳政彥 is identical in both, not auto-merged.

  • TAH Who’s Who encyclopedia record: 2015-09.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-21 (DEEPEN-X slice 09210051-5): hits remain Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, and the works index; the HOLD (TAH “Jang-Yen” vs Our Journeys EN “Chen-Yen”, same 吳政彥) stands, no new facts. SKIP-with-reason.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (DEEPEN-X slice 09212352-20): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index. The EN text confirms “Chen-Yen Wu (吳政彥)” among the eight who actively supported Rev. Jonah Chang’s 1970-08-09 first gathering at Centenary UMC; HOLD (TAH “Jang-Yen” vs OJ231-EN “Chen-Yen”, same 吳政彥) stands. SKIP-with-reason.

Family

  • Wife: 黃淑英

Sources

  • |TAH Foundation

  • |taiwaneseamericanhistory.org

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-23 (DEEPEN-X slice 09221100-24): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index; HOLD (Jang-Yen vs Chen-Yen, same 吳政彥) stands, no new facts. SKIP-with-reason.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-24 (DEEPEN-X slice 09230600-21): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index; HOLD (Jang-Yen vs Chen-Yen, same 吳政彥) stands, no new facts. SKIP-with-reason.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-25 (DEEPEN-X slice 09240600-25): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD (Jang-Yen vs Chen-Yen) stands.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (DEEPEN-X slice 09250900-26): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD (Jang-Yen vs Chen-Yen) stands.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-09-26 (DEEPEN-X slice 09260400-21): hit set unchanged — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index only. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD (Jang-Yen vs Chen-Yen, same 吳政彥) stands, no new facts.

  • Corpus re-grep 2026-10-04 (DEEPEN-X slice 09300315-22): fresh grep 吳政彥 / Jang-Yen Wu / Chen-Yen Wu returns the identical hit set — Our Journeys 231 (ZH + EN), TAH #591, works index. SKIP-with-reason: verified-saturated; HOLD (Jang-Yen vs Chen-Yen, same 吳政彥) stands, no new facts; hits-hash=356f368cac50.

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