Wu Cheng-wen (; born 19 June 1938) is a Taiwanese

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. He is the founding president of National Health Research Institutes, serving from 1996 to 2005. Wu was elected as an

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of Taiwan's

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in 1984. He is a 1988 Guggenheim fellow, as well as a 2011 recipient of the in Life Sciences. Wu was the director of Academia Sinica's Institute of Biomedical Sciences, and served on the Council of the Academia Sinica. He was a professor of pharmacological sciences at

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, and lived in

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. Currently he works as a special lecturer at National Yang-Ming University.

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