吳武田 - 2009年 傑出校友 得獎人 

Name:           Joseph Wu   吳武田
Year Graduated:    1965 Chemistry
Address:    34 Mt. Herman Way
                  West Caldwell, NJ 07006-7243
Telephone: 973-882-3120
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Education:

Ø  BS in Chemistry from National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Ø  MS in Chemistry from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA

Ø  Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Ø  Post Doctoral Research Fellow at both Department of Biophysics and Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Present Position: President of Immunetics, Inc.

Experiences and Business Enterprises:

v  Senior scientist at New England Nuclear Co., Boston, MA (I 974) and Instrumentation Lab., Lexington, MA (I 976).

v  Program manager at Electro-Nucleonics, Inc., Columbia, MD (1980) and Hoffman La Roche, Inc. Nutley, NJ (1985).

v  Scientific Contribution:

Ø  Paper presented at the national and international clinical chemistry conference

§  A homogeneous immunoprecipitation assay for Gentamicin and Phenytoin. (1982)

§  A latex Immunoassay for the detection of Barbiturates in Urine (1987)

§  Abuscreen Ontrak Assay for Benzodiazepines and Abuscreen Ontrak Assay for Methamphetamine (I991)

Ø  Paper published in Journal

§  The reaction of oxygen Atom with Cyclopropane, J. Phys. Chem. 74, 1852 (1970).

§  The Effect of Phenyl Substitution at the double bond of Δ3 -Cyclopentenylethyl p-Nitrobenzenesulfonate upon the rate of Acetolysis to Norbornyl Products, J. Org. Chem., 40, 1041 (1975).

§  Human Erythrocyte Galactose-1 -phosphate Uridylyltransferase. Evidence for a Uridylyi-Enzyme Intermediate by Kinetic and Exchange Reaction Studies, J. Biol. Chem., 252, 5363 (1977).

§  The Genetic Defect in Galactosemia, New England J. Med., 292, 737 (1975).

§  Human Galactose- I -phosphate Uridylyltransferase. Absence of Half-Reaction Activity of Galactosemic Protein, J. Biol. Chem.  249, 7038 (1974).

§  Quantitation of Haptens by Homogeneous Immunoprecipitation, Clin. Chem., 28, 659, 1190 (1982), and Clin. Chem., 29, 1540 (1983).

Ø  Patent: U.S. Patent Application, Immunoprecipitation Assay, No. 269,727 (1981).

v  Business Enterprise:

Ø  A founder of Immunetics, Inc. The company serves the scientific community with specialty immunochemicals throughout the world.

Ø  An invitation from the Department of Agriculture, Government of Taiwan, to help develop the rapid detection of pig infectious diseases.

Contribution/Service to NCKU/Alumni Association and Community:

Ø  As a lifetime member of CKUAAGNY, he supports and participates in most of the activities proposed by the Alumni Association. He is a long time contributor to this organization.

Ø  He always supports and makes contribution to the following organization: Asian Initiative American Cancer Society Eastern Division, Disabled American Veterans, Red Cross for Disaster Relief throughout the world, American Diabetes Society, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Research, etc.

Ø  He always supports and makes contribution to the following local residing area: West Caldwell library, West Caldwell Fire Volunteer Fund, West Essex First Aid Squad Fund, Essex Policemen's Benevolent Fund, etc.

Autobiography of Joseph Wu

                                                                                                                                                          吳 武 田

            I was born in a small village of Kai-Yun Li, Chu-Nan, Miali, Taiwan.  My grandpa had 12 children. My father was his oldest son.  We all lived together as a big family. For some reasons, my mother and grandma could not get along, and always quarreled with each other, and even fought over trivial things all the time. One day my mother was forced to leave the house when I was still a baby. Every time my mother told me the story; she always had tears in her eyes.

            During that time, I was stricken with polio, and have become a limp for the rest of my life.  However, I was lucky enough to go through elementary school and middle school and then was accepted by Provincial Hsin-Chu High School.  My father was very excited about my progress in education.  After I entered Cheng Kung University as a freshman, my father passed away suddenly.  It was the saddest time in my life.

            After I completed my BS in chemistry and MS at WPI, Massachusetts, I had an opportunity to come to University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia for my further study in chemistry.  I studied chemical reaction kinetics and mechanism for my thesis.  After my graduation, I could not find a job.  My thesis mentor told me that there was a joint research program from Medical school at Department of Biophysics and Department of Human Genetics.  Both Departments accepted me as a postdoctoral research fellow working on the enzyme kinetics and mechanism for the cause of galactosemia. 

            However, for my family well being, I needed to look for a better living standard, so that I took the first industrial job in Boston.  After I worked for a few years, I was laid off due to office politics, so that I had to look for another job.  However, the same situation happened again and again with several other employments.  I was very sad and disturbed to cause so much trouble for my family.  One day I was suddenly awaken to realize that I would be either fired or laid off again if I should work for another company.  I felt that it might be easier to change myself rather than to change others.  With my wife’s support and encouragement, I found a company called Immunetics and worked on some specialty components in an antibody/antigen reaction system for diagnostic use.  After a few years of hard work on the improvement of the research products, our products were gradually acceptable to the scientific community.

            During the time of my effort to develop some new products, I was invited from one of Taiwan Agricultural Divisions to go to Taiwan to help them develop a fast diagnostic technology for early pig infectious disease detection.  I simply replied them without any hesitation that it would be my great honor to serve and help the people of Taiwan. With some guidance and idea exchange with the scientists in Taiwan, the project went quite well and they achieved the goal.   It has been more than 20 years since I started my own company.  Today we have served the scientific community with the best specialty immunochemicals throughout the world.

            We have two adult children, Christine and Roger, with good education.  My wife and I are very proud of their achievement.  I consider myself as a very lucky man, and hope to do as much as I can within my ability to improve the life of all mankind.