Prof. Kenneth K. Wu (伍焜玉教授)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Prof. Kenneth K. Wu
- Chinese: 伍焜玉教授
- Era: 1941
- Geography: 臺灣 高雄
- Core roles: scientist, physician, professor
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
Prof. Kenneth K. Wu 伍焜玉 教授 – History of Taiwanese American (T.A. Archives) 台美史料中心
Education
- National Taiwan Univ. — 1966 — M.D.
- Yale Univ. — 1969 — M.S., Basic Medicine
- Univ. of London — 1997 — Ph.D.
Employment
- Univ. of Iowa — 1970-76 — 住院醫師、Professor
- 芝加哥Rush醫學院 — 1976-83 — 血液凝固與血栓部主任
- 德州大學醫學院 — 1983-06 — 醫學系教授副系主任、研究中心主任
- 中央研究院 — 1997-99 — 生物醫學科學研究所特聘研究員及所長
- 國家衛生研究院 — 2006 — 院長
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.
Role in the Community
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1980-02-16 — One of the sixteen professors at the first NATPA (台美教授協會) preparatory meeting at the University of Chicago International House; the meeting drafted the constitution/bylaws and resolved that the association should hold meetings in Taiwan and give research findings back to Taiwan and the community (roster in the 林衡哲 memoir 『Our Journeys』: 張錦哲、張旭成、陳炳杞、黃員成、黃金來、賴義雄、林靜竹、孫錦德、商文義、陳黃義敏、蔡嘉寅、吳得民、伍焜玉、楊勝亮、嚴文亮) (Our Journeys ch.69).
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1997-12-09 — Houston Mayor Lanier proclaimed December 9, 1997 as 「伍焜玉醫師日」 (Dr. Kenneth K. Wu Day) ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/251-e4-bc-8d-e7-84-9c-e7-8e-89-e9-86-ab-e5-b8-ab-e4-bc-91-e5-a3-ab-e9-a0-93-e5-b|TAH #251, 1997-12-09]]).
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Memoir/feature coverage in the movement record: 林秀美’s 「台美人的榮耀：伍焜玉醫師」 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/mystories320|TAH #320, 2015/08]]), [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/659-kenneth-k-wu-e4-bc-8d-e7-84-9c-e7-8e-89-201510|TAH #659, 2015/10]], and [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/112-prof-kenneth-k-wu|TAH #112 encyclopedia, 2018-09-26]] — the first of which corroborates the TAH table (Academia Sinica 院士-level international hematology scholar; NHRI 院長 in 2006, consistent with the employment table’s 2006 entry).
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2017-05-19 — 黃哲陽’s 台美人醫師 overview names him among the movement physicians of international stature who returned to serve Taiwan: 「伍焜玉在血液學是國際級的學者，被選為中央研究院院士，2006年回台任國家衛生研究院院長」 — the memoir text states Academia Sinica academicianship (院士), which the employment table only records as 特聘研究員及所長 (1997-99); cross-referenced to 林秀美’s profile as its footnote 7 ([[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys291|Our Journeys #291, 黃哲陽 2017-05-19]]).
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2024-04 — 台灣公義報存檔「新聞觀測站 20240420」收錄「血小板先生前國衛院長伍焜玉專訪」，recorded 2024-04-21 — its 血小板先生 (platelet) epithet matches the hematology/coagulation specialization in the employment table (TJJ 存檔, 2024-04-25 快照).
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2025-07 — 中研院首度明確要求院士須具中華民國國籍一案，伍焜玉以院士會議發言人身分透過新聞稿說明「會積極協助國籍認定有疑義的準院士釐清國籍問題」，於第34次院士會議（7日會後記者會）代表院里回應外界關切 — corpus 記錄其以院士身分擔任院士會議發言人，為本頁既存「中研院特聘研究員及所長」欄位之外的院士活動佐證 (TJJ 存檔, 2025-07-18 快照).
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Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09211300-4): hit set unchanged (ourjourneys69, ourjourneys291, mystories320, TAH #659, TAH #251, TAH #112); all already absorbed; Academia Sinica 院士 cross-reference holds. SKIP-no-new-material.
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Corpus re-grep 2026-09-22 (slice 09220800-2): fresh 伍焜玉 grep of works+articles returns exactly the absorbed set (mystories320, #112, ourjourneys69, ourjourneys291, #251, #659, TJJ 2025-07 院士國籍報導); broader Kenneth Wu grep adds only same-surname/unrelated profiles (Kenneth Kuo 涂陳珠欽, Wen-Chen Wu). Nothing new absorbable. SKIP-no-new-material.
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Corpus re-grep 2026-10-12 (slice 10110316-29): fresh 伍焜玉/Kenneth K. Wu/variant grep across works+articles+sources+events+topics returns exactly the absorbed set (ourjourneys69 + ourjourneys69-eng, ourjourneys291, mystories320, #251, #659, #112, TJJ 2024-04 & 2025-07); the single nominal new hit (ourjourneys296) is 「Wu, S.K. Wu 錫圭」 — a different Wu (S.K. Wu, TAA/Colorado), not Kenneth K. Wu 伍焜玉. Nothing new absorbable. SKIP-no-new-material.
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Corpus re-grep 2026-10-10 (slice 10091404-4): fresh 伍焜玉/Kenneth K. Wu/surname grep across works+articles+sources+events+topics returns exactly the absorbed set (ourjourneys69 + its English counterpart ourjourneys69-eng, ourjourneys291, mystories320, #251, #659, #112, TJJ 2024-04 & 2025-07); the only nominal new hit is a second snapshot of the same 「新聞觀測站 20240420」 tag page (TJJ tag snapshot, 2024-04-25) listing the identical 血小板先生專訪 title — same event, no new content. SKIP-no-new-material.