Chen-Yuan Lee, was a Taiwanese pharmacologist and political activist.
20 Facts About Chen-Yuan Lee
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Chen-Yuan Lee is famous for his research on snake venom.
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Chen-Yuan Lee was a recipient of the prestigious Redi Award from the International Society on Toxinology, and was a former president of the society.
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Chen-Yuan Lee was a former dean of the National Taiwan University College of Medicine.
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Chen-Yuan Lee was the first chairperson of the Taiwan Independence Party.
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Chen-Yuan Lee was born in Takao Prefecture, Taiwan in 1915.
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Chen-Yuan Lee chose to become a medical doctor after his father and three of his siblings died of malaria and infectious diseases.
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Chen-Yuan Lee grew up in Tainan, where he had outstanding grades.
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Chen-Yuan Lee entered the medical department of Taihoku Imperial University in 1936, and became one of the first graduates from the department.
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Chen-Yuan Lee enjoyed basic medical studies after entering the medical department.
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Chen-Yuan Lee finished his first research paper in his freshman year, which was published in the Taiwanese Medical Magazine.
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Chen-Yuan Lee became the assistant of Tu Tsung-ming, who was researching on basic medical studies and, at the time, the only Taiwanese professors in the medical department.
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Chen-Yuan Lee once said, To gain honor for Taiwan, dignity for the Taiwanese, I chose to follow Professor Tu instead of several other Japanese professors.
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In 1945, Chen-Yuan Lee published a research paper with a title of "The Toxicological Research on the Venom of Daboia", the paper was world's first paper to explain the cause of death by the venom of Daboia.
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In 1952, Chen-Yuan Lee was financially supported by the Economic Cooperation Administration and was sent to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School for further education.
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Chen-Yuan Lee was the second person employed by National Taiwan University's College of Medicine to be elected to Academia Sinica.
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Chen-Yuan Lee became the dean of the National Taiwan University College of Medicine in 1972.
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Chen-Yuan Lee retired in 1986 from National Taiwan University College of Medicine, and was immediately named a professor emeritus by the university.
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Chen-Yuan Lee, who was almost eighty years old, accompanied the protesting students.
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In 1991, along with several colleagues, Chen-Yuan Lee visited Ying-Yuan Lee and Kuo Pei-hung, two Taiwan Independence supporters and alumni of the National Taiwan University who were arrested for "planning to revolt" and were detained in the Tucheng Detention Center.