Hwang woo suk biography books

In the West, Woo-Suk Hwang is an enigma. In his home country, he is a scientist with perhaps too much power. In either place, he is a stem cell star.

“Is it Woo-Suk Hwang or Hwang Woo-Suk?

Hwang woo suk biography books

Or should we call him Dr. Hwang? Or Professor Hwang?”

At a stem cell conference in San Diego in March, researchers mused aloud before Hwang's arrival how best to address their South Korean colleague. These scientists all knew each other very well, but few had met Hwang before, and even fewer knew much about him.

But all of them—and most of the world besides—sat up and took notice when Hwang and his colleagues announced in February 2004 that they had successfully derived stem cells from a cloned human embryo (Science303, 1669–1674; 2004).

Within South Korea, Hwang needs no introduction.

A veterinarian by training, he is one of the country's most prominent scientists, sometimes called its 'national treasure,' and lately the model for its push to promote scienc