Tsai Laboratory      
Ming-Daw Tsai, Ph.D.

Email: tsai@chemistry.ohio-state.edu
Phone: (614) 292-3080
Education
1968-1972, B.S. in Chemistry, National Taiwan University, Taipei 
1974-1978, Ph.D. in Biochemistry & Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue University (Heinz Floss)
Positions Held
Nov. 2003 – Present          Distinguished Research Fellow and Associate Director, Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Oct 2003 – Present            Kimberly Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University
Sept. 1995 - July 2003      Director, Chemistry/Biology Interface Training Program, OSU
Oct. 1993 - Present          Director, Office of Research Campus Chemical Instrument Center (overseeing NMR and MS/Proteomics facilities),OSU
Jan. 1992 - Present          Professor, Department of Biochemistry, OSU
Oct. 1990 - Present          Professor, Department of Chemistry, OSU
Oct. 1986 - Sept. 1990     Associate Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University
Aug. 1989 -June 1990     Visiting Professor, Dept. of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin at Madison (with John Markley)
Mar.1986 - Sept. 1986    Visiting Professor, University of Lund, Sweden (with Sture Forsen)
July 1981 - Sept. 1986    Assistant Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University
July 1980 - July 1981      Assistant Prof of Chemistry, Rutgers Univ. (Newark)
July 1980 - Dec. 1980     Research Associate, University of Illinois (with Eric Oldfield)
July 1979 - Dec. 1980     Visiting Assistant Professor, Medicinal Chemistry, Purdue Univ.
Jan. 1978 - June 1979     Postdoctoral Associate, Purdue University (with H. G. Floss) 

 
Graduate Programs
Department of Chemistry
Department of Biochemistry
Ohio State Biochemistry Program
Biophysics Program
M. D./Ph. D. Program
Research Interest
 Structure-Function Relationship of Enzymes and Signal-Transduction Proteins
 Biological NMR, Chemical biology, DNA repair mechanisms.
 Functional Genomics
 Drug Discovery

 
Professional Membership
American Chemical Society
American Society of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Elected Fellow)
Protein Society
Honors/Awards
1. Glenn L. Jenkins Award for Excellence in Research, Purdue Univ., 1977.
2. Alfred P. Sloan Fellow, 1983-1985
3. Faculty Research Award, Ohio State Chapter of Sigma Xi, 1985.
4. Camille and Henry Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar, 1985-1990.
5. Distinguished Scholar Award, Ohio State University, 1992.
6. Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1992.
7. Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) Academic Leadership Program Fellow, 2002-2003.
8. Kimberly Professor of Chemistry, Ohio State University, 2003-present.
9. Guest Professor, Tsinghua University, PRC, 2003-present.
10. Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2003-present.

 

Special Professional Services
1. Symposium Organizer, "Quadrupolar NMR in Biophysical Chemistry", ACS 18th Central Regional Meeting, Bowling Green, June 4, 1986.
2. Co-Chairperson, 8th Midwest Enzyme Chemistry Conference, October, 1988.
3. NIH Physical Biochemistry Study Section Member, 1988-92.
4. Co-chair, Gordon Conference on Enzymes, July 1993.
5. Board Member, Chinese American Chemical Society, 1993-96.
6. Co-founder, Ohio NMR Consortium, 1995.
7. Nominating Committee, American Chemical Society Division of Biological Chemistry, 1997.
8. NIH Training Grant Study Section, 1997-01.
9. Symposium Organizer, “NMR of Biological Macromolecules”. 31st Central Regional Meeting of the American Chemical Society, June 21-23, 1999.
10. Advisory Board, Institute of Chemistry, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 1991-present.
11. President, Chinese American Chemical Society, 2003.
12. Organizer, Frontiers of Bioorganic and Natural Product Chemistry Symposium, Seattle, August 26-29, 2004.