Tang Kent Tang () is a Taiwanese geneticist, cellular biologist, and biomedical researcher who has been a vice president of Academia Sinica since 2022. He is best known for his research on centrosomes.
Tang graduated from Tunghai University with a B.S. in biology in 1978 and earned an M.S. in microbiology and immunology from National Yang-Ming University in 1983. He then pursued graduate studies in the United States, earning an M.A. and his Ph.D. in human genetics in 1988 from Yale University. His doctoral dissertation, completed under geneticist Edward J. Benz Jr. and pathologist Vincent Marchesi, was titled, "Molecular cloning and tissue-specific regulation of erythroid and nonerythroid membrane skeletal protein 4.1".
After receiving his doctorate, Tang was a postdoctoral fellow of internal medicine at the Yale School of Medicine from 1988 to 1989. At the end of his postdoctoral fellowship, he became a researcher at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences of Academia Sinica, where he later served as an associate research fellow, research fellow, and distinguished research fellow.
In 2022, Tang was elected a member of Academia Sinica. He remains a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Institute of Biomedical Sciences.
He also is a member of the Program in Molecular Medicine, a collaboration between National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Academia Sinica.
He co-holds patents with Academia Sinica research colleagues.