Jacqueline Whang-Peng

Jacqueline Jia-Kang Whang-Peng (; born September 1932) is a Taiwanese-American physician-scientist specialized in cytogenetics of cancer, as well as medical genetics, genetic oncology, and gene mapping. She was a researcher at the National Cancer Institute from 1960 to 1993.

Early life and education Jacqueline Jia-Kang Whang-Peng was born in Suzhou. Whang-Peng completed a M.D. from Taipei Medical University in 1956. From 1955 to 1957, she was an intern and fixed intern in surgery at the National Taiwan University Hospital. She was at New England Hospital as an intern resident and chief resident in surgery. She then served a residency at Quincy City Hospital in pathology and at George Washington University Hospital in internal medicine before joining the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in 1960.

Whang-Peng was chief of the cytogenetic oncology section in the NCI's Medicine Branch when she retired on December 31, 1993. She returned to Taiwan to help in clinical trials in liver and cervical cancers. Whang-Peng received scientific awards from the Chinese American Medical Society (1985), Organization of Chinese Americans (1989); and a PHS Commendation Award in 1989.

Personal life Whang-Peng became a U.S. citizen in June 1970. She is married to George Peng, a mechanical engineer. They have four children.