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Bik-Kwoon Tye (楊碧瓘) is Professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at Cornell University. She was born and raised in Hong Kong where she attended St. Stephen’s Girls College from the age of 4 to 19. In 1966, she received a full scholarship to attend Wellesley College in the U.S. She graduated from Wellelsley College with a B.A. in Chemistry in 1969 before moving to San Francisco for graduate studies in Biochemistry at UCSF (M.Sc. ′71) with the late Dr. Cho Hao Li (李卓皓). She continued with her graduate studies at M.I.T. where she received her Ph.D. degree in 1974 in Genetics. She was a Helen Hay Whitney postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University for three years before joining the faculty at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the regulation of DNA replication in eukaryotes. She is the discoverer of the MCM gene family that regulates DNA replication. Her current research includes studies on the molecular mechanism of cancer development initiated by defects at replication forks. She is the mother of two daughters who are budding neuroscientists.
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Tye, B.K. Memories of Ray Wu by a Colleague. SCI CHINA SER C 52, 133–134 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11427-009-0027-2
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