Tanox was founded by Chang Tse-wen, currently a researcher at the Academia Sinica's Genomics Research Center, and his ex-wife Nancy in Houston in 1986.
Tanox 正是現任中研院基因體中心特聘研究員張子文，與前妻唐南珊於 1986 年在美國休士頓創立的生技公司。