De-Maw Chuang ( Chinese: 莊德茂) is a Taiwanese-American neuroscientist.
After Chuang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1966, [1] he took his father's advice to study abroad, [2] subsequently completing his doctorate at Stony Brook University in 1971, [1] where he was advised by Melvin Simpson. [2] Chuang worked with Herbert Weissbach at the Roche Institute of Molecular Biology as a postdoctoral researcher. Weissbach advised Chuang to look for a position at the National Institute of Health. [2] Chuang was a NIH researcher from 1973 to 2014. [2] [3]
Chuang was elected a member of Taiwan's Academia Sinica in 2006. [1]