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Teh,
you will be missed. Words are inadequate. I struggle to accept that he is no
longer with us. Teh was a wonderful colleague and friend. Although we are the
same age, I’ve always looked up to Teh; he was on my “short-list” of people to
call for advice, and he came through in spades. I’ve spent much of my
scientific career inspired by his energy and enthusiasm, and in awe of his
accomplishments. He was not only extraordinarily knowledgeable, but possessed
wisdom seemingly well beyond his years. Teh died way too young. Teh, I will
miss you. We will miss you immeasurably.
Teh was among the best scientists to talk to at the
NIH. Check out his photos at https://www.biomedcentral.com/researchawards/images/2010_06b.jpg
or https://nihrecord.od.nih.gov/newsletters/2012/06_22_2012/images/story6Pic1.jpg. Enormous smile. Enormous insight. Enormous sense of social justice. Enormous loss. -cw
My sister, niece and nephews appreciate the kind thoughts and words, on the blogs, the phone calls and visitors. He always did have that grin in every picture, didn’t he….
The last time I spoke with Teh was in the Christmas party hosted by the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA). Teh gave me a bag of Chinese Tea for Christmas, and asked about my lab and the research. He knew I was worried about funding and gave me some good words of encouragement. Teh looked very happy among friends and he is truly a good leader, a good friend trusted by everyone. Teh never hides his feeling about things every time we speak. Sometimes, he could make you feel disappointed, but if you think his words twice, the opinions and advices, although may not be what you want to hear, are the best you can get from a true friend. It is beyond my belief that he suddenly left us at such a young and productive life time. The sense of loss is hard to bear. The shocking and sorrow may fade away with time, but he will be missed and remembered. Yuntao Wu
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR DR. KUAN-TEH JEANG
Dear friends,
In remembrance of Dr. Kuan-Teh Jeang’s passing, a memorial funeral service will be held on February 9th (Saturday), 2013 at 2:00pm at the Chinese Bible Church of Maryland (4414 Muncaster Mill Road, Rockville, MD, 20853). If you would like to attend this service, please send an email to scba2u@gmail.com.
If you would like to send your condolences to Dr. Jeang’s family, please send it to: 14104 Arctic Ave, Rockville, MD, 20853.
If you would like to make a donation to the “Kuan-Teh Jeang Memorial Fund”, please make it payable to “SCBA DC Chapter” and add “KT Jeang Memorial Fund” at the left bottom “Memo” or “For” section of the check. Please mail your check to: SCBA DC Chapter, Attn: Dr. Yufei Jiang, 19803 Celebration Way, Germantown, MD 20874. Thank you.
KT Jeang’s suddenly death was a heart-broken news to all of us at NIH. To remember him and provide our immediate assistance to his family and his lab and to address various questions related to this tragic news, our local SCBA chapter at Washington DC-Baltimor area immediately formed a funeral committee with our SCBA national office. Please contact each of our committee members for your question, donation, photo contribution, etc.
KT Jeang funeral committee:
Cochairs: Zhi-Ming Zheng (NCI), coordinator for all: NIAID, Jeang’s lab, eulogy, etc.
Paul Liu (NHGRI), eulogy and coordinator with NIH and NIAID
Members: Yunbo Shi (NICHD), KT Jeang Memorial fund
Xin-Wei Wang (NCI), KT Jeang Memorial fund
Chuxia Deng (NIDDK), Photo collections
Bin Gao (NIAAA), photo collections
Keji Zhao (NHLBI), photo collections
Richard Zhao (UMD), National SCBA officer and Baltimore coordinator
TC Wu (JHU), National officer, JHU and Jeang family coordinator
Ying Zhang (NCI), wreath and flowers, etc.
Wei Yang (NIDDK), wreath and flowers, etc.
Xiao-Fan Wang (Duke), President of SCBA.
Chou-Zen (Jeo) Giam (USUHS), eulogy and Jeang family coordinator.
When I read Malcolm Gladwell’s book “The
Tipping Point” about people with a rare set of social gifts that enable them to
start a social epidemic, it was Teh who came to my mind immediately. Gladwell
describes these people as Connectors, who know a large number of people and are
in the habit of making connections; as Mavens, whom we rely on to
connect us to new information; and as Salesman, who are charismatic and
possess powerful negotiation skills that persuade others to come along. My
friend Teh was all of those and more. He was a creative genius, a champion, a strong
and unwavering voice, and a true friend who would come through for you in your
hours of desperation. The loss of Teh is just to great to bear!
C Giam
Very depressed to learn this sad news. My first impression of him as an energetic tireless researcher was when I was doing post-doctoral training in your lab. His creation of Retrovirology is perhaps the best example of a strong voice as you mentioned. I hope his spirit will inspire generations of researchers to seek novel scientific discoveries and make special efforts to “connect” science with the public. Best wishes.
In the Deserved Honour
of Kuan-Teh JEANG
A Visionary in Science
and Communication
Dear
Teh,
We’ll
miss you
Yes
we’ll miss you so much,
We’ll
miss your ideas and unforgettable dedications
In
Science while constantly advocating for novel communications,
Debating
with enthusiasm for worldwide free open access,
So
brightly, straightforwardly with fairness.
Yes,
Dear Teh
We’ll
miss all of these original views of Yours
At
the very same time
We’ll
miss the man
Yes
the Man
Darlix
Jean-Luc, and from France Cimarelli
Andrea, Mély Yves, Muriaux Delphine, Mougel Marylène,
de Rocquigny Hugues,
Sitbon Marc, Cristofari Gaël, Ohlmann Théophile, Taylor Naomi, Boulanger
Pierre, Saw-See Hong, Litvak Simon, from
Switzerland Moradpour Darius, from
Chile Lopez Lastra Marcelo.
In the Deserved Honour of Kuan-Teh JEANG
A Visionary in Science and Communication
Dear Teh,
We’ll miss you
Yes we’ll miss you so much,
We’ll miss your ideas and unforgettable dedications
In Science while constantly advocating for novel communications,
Debating with enthusiasm for worldwide free open access,
So brightly, straightforwardly with fairness.
Yes, Dear Teh
We’ll miss all of these original views of Yours
At the very same time
We’ll miss the man
Yes the Man
Darlix Jean-Luc, and from France Cimarelli Andrea, Mély Yves, Muriaux Delphine, Mougel Marylène, de Rocquigny Hugues, Sitbon Marc, Cristofari Gaël, Ohlmann Théophile, Taylor Naomi, Boulanger Pierre, Saw-See Hong, Litvak Simon, from Switzerland Moradpour Darius, from Chile Lopez Lastra Marcelo.
It is very difficult to bear that Teh is no longer with us. He was great friend and colleague. I took many of his advices, how to organize lab, how to manage postdocs and students, how to write papers and so on. He gave me lost of encouragement when I started to work at Howard University and had to build everything from scratch. Teh has asked me many time to organize an HIV-1 meeting in Russia and
was always wonted to go to St. Petersburg, which unfortunately did not
happened. We spent the end of December 2012 and early January 2013 in constant communication preparing USA-Russian collaboration grant which Teh submitted as an intramural project. He started to ask several years ago to find colleagues in Russia and finally we connected to two groups and everything was flowing. News about Teh’s departuer was like a thunderbolt for me and I am still hardly believing it. So, Dear Teh, rest in peace, we will remember you and take after you.
I am saddened by the Dr Jeang’s demise. I am so thankful for his help. He was a great scientist and an outstanding visionary. May his soul rest in peace. My condolences are with his family and all who had been close to him.
-Jayanta Bhattacharya, India
As the many writers below, the HIV research community at UNC Chapel Hill was shocked and saddened. Many of us have known and worked with KT since the early days of our careers, and of the HIV epidemic. His constant smile, enthusiasm, and energy will be missed by all
– David Margolis
This is very sad news. Like many others, I was impressed by Kuan-Teh’s
efforts to make virology papers accessible to a wide audience. As an
author, I appreciated his hands-on involvement in the submission and
reviewing process. We will miss him.
in behalf of Dr Christian Devaux
Unfortunately,
here at Montpellier (South of France) as elsewhere in the international
scientific community, we have learned the sad news of the sudden death of K.T.
Jeang who was only 54 years old.
I
met Teh for the first time at a seminar I delivered at the NIH/NIAID in the
early 90s. Then, several young scientists from my laboratory were welcomed by
Teh at NIH for a post-doctoral training. The first bright young scientist from
my research group who joined Teh’s laboratory almost 25 years ago, was Monsef
Benkirane. Several other students were trained in Teh’s lab next. For Monsef
and his colleagues at NIH, Teh was their mentor and he contributed strongly to
their significant scientific achievements.
Teh
was an outstanding scientist whose contributions have marked the last 30 years
of biomedical science. He was also the editor in
chief of Retrovirology, a journal that he created and worn in a short time at a
high level of international recognition. Several colleagues from Montpellier
are currently members of the editorial board of Retrovirology.
Teh
was a model of perseverance. Tireless worker, the head full of innovative
ideas, Teh was also a nice, friendly, happy, and humorous colleague. Everyone
always crossed him with pleasure in Congress.
He
leaves behind him a wife and three children with whom we share sadness, and a
NIH team who will struggle to recover from this loss.
Teh’s
colleagues and friends from CPBS Montpellier will be represented the next week
in Washington by Jean-Marie Peloponese, the most recent post-doc from Teh’s lab
recruited by CPBS, for the last homage of our laboratory to Dr. K.T. Jeang. I personally lost a
colleague to whom I had the greatest respect and admiration. We will miss you
Teh.
Christian A. Devaux, Director of CPBS,
Montpellier France and former Director of the French CNRS life Science.
Wow!!
Tell me this is a bad dream! I first met Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang when he gave an
insanely passionate presentation at the Garvan institute in Sydney, Australia
on the role of microRNAs in HIV infection. That presentation still remains the
most enjoyable and passionate basic science talk I have ever heard (and I have
been to quite a few conferences!). His talk left me so convinced that I went
back to my lab (a post doc at the time) and convinced my supervisors to start
an microRNA project on hepatitis C, which we eventually did. The manuscript is
now in preparation. God Bless Dr Kuan-Teh Jeang. Wow this is a huge lost but his legacy will live forever!!
R.I.P. Thank you for the brilliant work you did on HIV.
He is a wonderful scientist, I have personally had good interactions with him, He was very hard working and best scientist who extensively worked on eradication of HIV.
Dr. Shivaji K Jadhav,
Molecular Virologist,
India
I was shocked by the news. Teh sent me a Christmas greeting email, with a photo of his family. We had subsequently several email exchanges. His enthusiasm to future endeavor, love of his family, and his warmth and friendship were vividly revealed in these emails.
I can’t believe that he would be gone in just such a short period. Teh to me is a colleague, a mentor, and a dear friend. I will forever miss his contagious laugh, the intelligent conversation, and his relentless effort for the Chinese American scientists.
This is
very sad news! We met Teh once a few years ago at our annual graduate course
meeting in Germany. We invited him and although he did not know us he was
enthusiastic and loved to join our small meeting. Talking about science with
Teh was more than inspiring and he strongly influenced our way of looking at
things. However, even more impressive was the way how he talked to us young PhD
students. At one evening at this meeting Teh sat together with a few of us and
we spoke about … just everything. He listened to our thoughts, problems,
hopes and whishes and shared very personal aspects of his life, ideas and
advices with us. We are still deeply impressed by his kindness when we think
back to this evening.
We will
remember Teh as a great researcher and encouraging mentor! Our condolences are
with his family and friends.
Bianca Hoffmann & Bastian Grewe (Bochum, Germany)
intakhab2k@rediffmail.com