Nam-Hai Chua


Nam-Hai Chua FRS is a Singaporean botanist. He is an Andrew W. Mellon Emeritus Professor at Rockefeller University. He is now deputy chairman of Temasek Life Science Laboratory.

Life

He earned a BS from the National University of Singapore, and an AM and PhD from Harvard University in 1969. He taught at the University of Singapore Medical School, from 1969 to 1971. He was awarded the International Prize for Biology in 2005. He joined Rockefeller University in 1973 and remained there till his retirement from the university. Thereafter, he moved back to Singapore in 2016.

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