Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu

Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu (Zhu) was born January 20 1908 in Hangzhou,China. Died in 1978 in Cleveland Ohio. Dr. Chu was Emertitus Professor of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University. He was the first chinese national to be evacuated with the help of the US government and the Rockefeller Foundation during World War II to the United States of America. He was a key researcher with the Peking Union Medical College under the auspices of the Rockefeller Foundation in China.
Education
Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was educated with private tutors and later graduated from St Johns University Shanghai. He was awarded a Bachelor of Science from Nanking University in 1931 and a Master Degree in Cellular Biology from Yenching University in 1933. After immigrating to the America, Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu received his doctorate degree from Washington University in 1947.
Early career in China
After graduating from Yenching University in Shanghai in 1933, Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was one of the cellular biology researchers selected to work with E.V. Cowdry under the auspices of the Peking Union Medical College. The Peking Union Medical College was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation in New York and set up by E.V. Cowdry. There is speculation that the Peking Union Medical College researchers were involved in analyzing biomedical warfare agents on behalf of the United States using data from the Japanese biomedical warfare in China.
While working at the Peking Union MedicalCollege, the Japanese invaded Beijing(Peking) in 1937. Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was forced to join thousands of chinese that fled the city on the Long March. Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu made his way to Chungdu, which was controlled by the Kuomintong forces and the american military.
Evacuation from China
With the sponsorship of Dr E.V. Cowdry, Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was flown from Chungdu China to Burma with the Flying Tigers. From Burma he made his way overland to Calcutta. In Calcutta he took a train to Mumbai and then boarded the cruise ship Gispholm to New York City. He arrived in New York on VJ Day. Once in the United States he attended Washington University in St Louis Missouri to finished his doctorate PHD in cellular biology and virology, graduating in 1947.
Career in the U.S.
After graduation from Washington University, Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was postdoctorate fellow at the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda Maryland, a fellow at the State University in New York and a research professor at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City in 1952. Dr Chu was involved in virology research which contributed to biological weapon development on behalf of the US Biological weapons program in the early 1950's. Dr Chu specialized in histochemistry and cellular biology. Later, Dr. Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was a cancer researcher at the Roswell Institute in Buffalo New York. He finished his career as Emeritus Professor of Anatomy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland Ohio.
Family background
Dr.Chi Hsuin Urlic Chu was born in Hangzhou China in 1908 where his family where landowners, silk merchants and bankers. The family's banking operations financed the silk and opium trade out of Hangzhou. Chi Hsuin Urli Chu's grandfather Tong Chu was a local mandarin in Hangzhou. Has father Chu (Zhu) Chung Loh was a banker in the family bank. Dr. Chi Hsuin Urli Chu is descended from the House of Zhu through has grandfather Tong Chu . At fifty years of age, In 1958, he married Elizabeth Warren in Cleveland Ohio and had one daughter Julie Chu.

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