Cheng Yung-chi

Cheng was born in England on December 29, 1944, and later moved to Taiwan. After graduating from Tunghai University in 1966 with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in chemistry and biology, Cheng went to Canada and studied for a year at the University of Guelph. Because his wife was a graduate student at Brown University, Cheng decided to transfer to Brown and pursue graduate studies in the United States. His doctoral dissertation was titled, "Distribution of Nucleoside Diphosphokinase (NDP Kinase) Isoenenzymes in Animal Tissues." == Career ==

From September 1972 to June 1973, Cheng was a postdoctoral researcher under pharmacologist William Prusoff at the Yale School of Medicine. In the 1970s, together they co-formulated the Cheng–Prusoff equation to calculate the absolute inhibition constant Ki (IC50). In 1994, Cheng was elected a member of Academia Sinica. == Personal life ==

Cheng is married to Elaine H.C. Cheng, with whom he has two children. == References ==