Tsay Yi-Fang

Tsay is a distinguished research Fellow at Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She is a plant biologist known for her research on nitrate transport, nitrate signaling, and nitrogen-use efficiency, widly recognized for identifying the first nitrate transporter gene in plants, elucidating novel mechanisms of nitrate transport, and pioneering studies demonstrating that transporters, now known as transceptors, can also function as sensors. She obtained her BSc and MSc degrees from National Taiwan University, in 1983 and 1985, respectively, and her PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, in 1990. She served on the editorial board of Plant Physiology from 2011 to 2022. She was named a KIA Laureate and has received several awards, including the Academia Sinica Outstanding Young Researcher Award, the MOST Outstanding Research Award, the Hou-Chin Dui Outstanding Award, the Taiwan Outstanding Women in Science Award, the MOE Academic Award, the ASPB Enid MacRobbie Corresponding Membership, and the CTCI Science and Technology Contribution Award. She was elected an international member of the US National Academy of Sciences in 2021, and an academician of Academia Sinica, Taiwan, in 2024.