Asian Pacific American Heritage

An educator and ethnobotanist from Hawaii, leading expert on Pacific algae.

A biochemist best known for his work on the molecular basis of sickle cell anemia and other diseases.

The “Shark Lady”, a Japanese-American ichthyologist.

Undergrad at WashU double majoring in Biology: Neuroscience and Japanese Language and Culture

Chinese-American bioengineer. Regarded as a founding figure of bioengineering and the “Founder of Modern Biomechanics”.

First Asian born and Indian born Nobel laureate in Physiology/Medicine (1968).

Renowned Taiwanese-American HIV/AIDS researcher, since the beginning of the epidemic.

A cancer researcher, the Director of the Toni Stephenson Lymphoma Center and the Dr. Michael Friedman Professor for Translational Medicine at City of Hope.

A Japanese-Canadian biologist and university administrator. He worked in the field of gene regulation in the immune system.

An Indian biochemist that worked both in academia and industry (American Cyanamid Company (now part of Pfizer).

A Chinese-American virologist and molecular biologist.