Samuel Wu was born in Beijing, China and spent the first 14 years there until his family moved to Hong Kong. He immigrated to the United States for his undergraduate studies, earning majors in Physics and Biophysics from the University of California Berkeley. He completed his graduate studies at Harvard and post-doc at UC Berkeley. Today, he works at the Baylor College of Medicine as Hankamer Chair in Ophthalmology, conducting research and teaching. He enjoys reading Chinese scholarly books and hopes to continue writing neuroscience textbooks and working on translating his autobiography from Chinese to English.
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