Ray Wu

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Ray Wu, was a Chinese American biologist and educator. Wu was a pioneer of plant genetic engineering, and the former Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Molecular Genetics and Biology at Cornell University. Wu was the son of Hsien Wu, also a biologist. Wu was born in Beijing in China, his ancestral hometown was Fuzhou of Fujian Province. Wu was educated in the United States and obtained his PhD in biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in 1955. Wu did important work in DNA sequencing and genetic engineering, and is regarded as one of founding fathers of plant genetic engineering. Wu also was an active educator, and created the CUSBEA (China-US Biochemistry Examination and Application). In 1999, at Cornell, Wu donated US$ 500,000 to establish the Ray Wu Graduate Fellowship in Molecular Biology and Genetics to support biology graduate students.