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Yuet Wai Kan
Yuet Wai Kan FRS (Chinese: 簡悅威; Jyutping: Gaan2 Jyut6 Wai1; born June 11, 1936), is a Chinese-American geneticist and hematologist. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a former president of the American Society of Hematology.
Kan is of Shunde, Guangdong, descent, and was born in Hong Kong to the prominent Kan family. His father, Tong Po Kan, was a co-founder of Bank of East Asia, and had 14 children; Kan is the youngest. Kan's brother, Yuet-keung Kan, was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the Executive Council of Hong Kong, and a former chairman of the Bank of East Asia.
Kan started his education at True Light Elementary School, not long before the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. He entered Wah Yan College, Hong Kong after the war and graduated in 1952. He then followed his father's wish and studied medicine in the University of Hong Kong (HKU), staying at the residence of Morrison Hall and obtaining his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1958, with a distinction in Social Medicine, Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The University of Hong Kong awarded Kan a Doctor of Science in 1980.
After spending 2 years at Queen Mary Hospital for residency and internship, at the advice of David Todd, a professor at the HKU Department of Medicine, Kan went to the United States in 1960 to work and be trained in various North American institutions. He first went to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (now part of Brigham and Women's Hospital) to work and learn hematology under Frank H. Gardner, during which he became interested in research. He then moved to the University of Pittsburgh to finish his clinical training and residency under Jack Myers, and then joined Vernon Ingram at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to learn about hemoglobin. Kan then joined Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University in Montreal as a fellow in hematology under Louis Lowenstein. He became interested in thalassemia after attending to an infant with alpha-thalassemia.
After the fellowship, Kan briefly teamed up with Frank H. Gardner again at the University of Pennsylvania, to which Gardner recently moved. He moved again in 1970, when a former colleague of his at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital invited him to study thalassemia at Boston Children's Hospital, and became an assistant professor at Harvard University. In 1972, Kan went to San Francisco General Hospital to become the Chief of Hematology Service, and was, at the same time, appointed an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 1976, he became an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a position from which he retired in 2003. Kan was promoted to full professor in 1977 at the Department of Medicine of UCSF, and was cross-appointed to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1979. In 1983, he was appointed Head of the Division of Genetics and Molecular Hematology at the Department of Medicine, and became the Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology.
Kan sat on the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science, which reviews nominations for the award, from 1988 to 1990, and was the President of the American Society of Hematology in 1990. He was also the President of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America from 1998 to 1999, and was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, from 1991 to 2011.
In 1993, Kan was appointed to head the newly established Gene Therapy Core Center at UCSF.
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Yuet Wai Kan
Yuet Wai Kan FRS (Chinese: 簡悅威; Jyutping: Gaan2 Jyut6 Wai1; born June 11, 1936), is a Chinese-American geneticist and hematologist. He is the current Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology and a Professor Emeritus at the University of California, San Francisco. He is a former president of the American Society of Hematology.
Kan is of Shunde, Guangdong, descent, and was born in Hong Kong to the prominent Kan family. His father, Tong Po Kan, was a co-founder of Bank of East Asia, and had 14 children; Kan is the youngest. Kan's brother, Yuet-keung Kan, was the Senior Unofficial Member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong and the Executive Council of Hong Kong, and a former chairman of the Bank of East Asia.
Kan started his education at True Light Elementary School, not long before the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. He entered Wah Yan College, Hong Kong after the war and graduated in 1952. He then followed his father's wish and studied medicine in the University of Hong Kong (HKU), staying at the residence of Morrison Hall and obtaining his Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree in 1958, with a distinction in Social Medicine, Medicine, Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology.
The University of Hong Kong awarded Kan a Doctor of Science in 1980.
After spending 2 years at Queen Mary Hospital for residency and internship, at the advice of David Todd, a professor at the HKU Department of Medicine, Kan went to the United States in 1960 to work and be trained in various North American institutions. He first went to Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston (now part of Brigham and Women's Hospital) to work and learn hematology under Frank H. Gardner, during which he became interested in research. He then moved to the University of Pittsburgh to finish his clinical training and residency under Jack Myers, and then joined Vernon Ingram at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to learn about hemoglobin. Kan then joined Royal Victoria Hospital at McGill University in Montreal as a fellow in hematology under Louis Lowenstein. He became interested in thalassemia after attending to an infant with alpha-thalassemia.
After the fellowship, Kan briefly teamed up with Frank H. Gardner again at the University of Pennsylvania, to which Gardner recently moved. He moved again in 1970, when a former colleague of his at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital invited him to study thalassemia at Boston Children's Hospital, and became an assistant professor at Harvard University. In 1972, Kan went to San Francisco General Hospital to become the Chief of Hematology Service, and was, at the same time, appointed an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). In 1976, he became an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, a position from which he retired in 2003. Kan was promoted to full professor in 1977 at the Department of Medicine of UCSF, and was cross-appointed to the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics in 1979. In 1983, he was appointed Head of the Division of Genetics and Molecular Hematology at the Department of Medicine, and became the Louis K. Diamond Chair in Hematology.
Kan sat on the President's Committee on the National Medal of Science, which reviews nominations for the award, from 1988 to 1990, and was the President of the American Society of Hematology in 1990. He was also the President of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America from 1998 to 1999, and was the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Croucher Foundation, Hong Kong, from 1991 to 2011.
In 1993, Kan was appointed to head the newly established Gene Therapy Core Center at UCSF.