On New Year's Day, 1994, Whang-Peng left her family and her comfortable life in the US, and, at the invitation of former Academia Sinica president Wu Ta-you and Institute of Biomedical Sciences director Wu Cheng-wen, became director of the institute's Cancer Clinical Research Center, with the mission to revitalize the field of cancer treatment in Taiwan.
1994 年元旦，彭汪嘉康離開美國優渥的環境和親愛的家人，在吳大猷前院長及生醫所所長吳成文的邀請下，孑然一身來到中研院生醫所擔任癌症研究中心主任，為台灣的癌症醫療注入一股振興的力量。