Wallace L. McKeehan Chemical Family History
275 Years of Discovery & Mentorship

Carl Linnaeus University of Harderwijk, 1735 Plant biotechnology; father of biological classification (taxonomy) >>> Torbern Bergman Uppsala University, 1758 Father of quantitative chemical analysis; carbon dioxide chemistry; first carbonated water Papers at U. Illinois >>> Johann Afzelius Uppsala University, 1784 Isolated formic acid; chemistry of nickel >>> Jöns Jacob Berzelius Stockholm University, 1802 "Father of modern chemistry, chemical formulas for reactions; discovered silicon, selenium, thorium, cerium, lithium, vanadium; coined the term "protein" >>> Friedrich Wöhler Heidelberg University, 1823 Characterized, synthesized urea; discovered/isolated beryllium, silicon; isolated yttrium, titanium; isomerism and free radicals >>> Charles Chandler Gottingen University, 1856 First environmental health chemist; founded American Chemical Society >>> Albert F. Mathews Columbia University, 1898 Chemical basis of nerve excitation >>> Frederick C. Koch University of Chicago, 1912 Discoverer of male sex hormone testosterone Gallagher & Koch (1929) The Testicular Hormone, J. Biol. Chem. 84:495 >>> Roger J. Williams University of Chicago, 1919 Discovered pantothenic acid; isolated and characterized folic acid; pioneered nutritional education Founder, The Clayton Foundation Biochemical Institute, UT-Austin >>> Herschel Mitchell University of Texas, 1941 Biochemistry of fruit flies & development; heat shock >>> Boyd Hardesty California Institute of Technology, 1961 Mechanism of protein synthesis on ribosomes >>> Wallace L. McKeehan University of Texas, 1970 Distiguished & Regents Professor Emeritus IBT-Texas A&M University Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX >>> Patricia Fritz (MS) SUNY-Plattsburgh, 1979 Jinzhao (Jay) Hou, Clarkson U., 1992 Research Scientist Skyline Therapeutics, Shanghai, PRC Guochen (Gordon) Yan, Clarkson U., 1992 Cofounder & CEO Biovision, Inc. & AbVision Therapeutics, Milpitas, CA Ergang Shi (deceased 2022) Clarkson U., 1993 Associate Director High Throughput Screening Center (HTSC) Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Tarrytown, NY Jianming Xu, Clarkson U., 1994 Professor Dept. Molecular & Cellular Biology Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX Fen Wang, Clarkson U., 1994 Professor IBT-Texas A&M Health Science Center Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX Shuju Feng, Kunming Inst. Zoology, 1994 Assistant Professor Pulmonary Medicine, MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston, TX Jun-Hyeog Jang, Texas A&M, 1997 Professor Dept. of Cancer Biology Inha University College of Medicine Incheon, Korea Weiqin Lu (MS), U. Texas-Houston, 1999 Associate Professor Department of Medicine Stony Brook University School of Medicine Stony Brook, NY Richard Jones, Texas A&M, 2000 Director Global Biopharma 3M Corporation Separation & Purification Sciences Division, Healthcare Group Xiaochong Wu (MS), U. Texas-Houston, 2002 Associate Professor Texas Childrens Hospital, Baylor College of Medicine Houston, TX Chundong Yu, U. Texas-Houston, 2002 Professor State Key Laboratory of Cellular Stress Biology Xiamen University, Xiamen, PRC Yongde Luo, Texas A&M, 2005 Professor School of Pharmaceutical Science, Wenzhou Medical University, Wenzhou, Zhejiang, PRC Tijuana N. Moss (MS), Texas A&M, 2006 Meso Scale Diagnostics Rockville, MD Xinqiang Huang, Texas A&M, 2006 Associate Director Morphic Therapeutics, Waltham, MA Dongdong Cao (MS), Texas A&M, 2007 ASCP Pathologists' Assistant St. Alexius Medical Center Bismarck, SD Rui Xie, Texas A&M 2010 Chaofeng Yang, Texas A&M 2010 Instructor Division of Endocrinology UT-Southwestern Medical Center Dallas, TX Junchen Liu, Texas A&M Assistant Professor Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, McGovern Medical School, UTHealth, Houston, TX [Last known positions indicated] [Page updated 04/03/2024]

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