Dr. Fu-Kuen Lin (林福坤博士)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: Dr. Fu-Kuen Lin
  • Chinese: 林福坤博士
  • Era: 1941
  • Geography: Keelung, Taiwan
  • Core roles: entrepreneur, scientist
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
  1. “Discoverers Award” of Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America 1995

Role in the Community

  • Remembered in the community essay 「生技巨人林福坤的故事」 by 楊文顯 (2015-05) — 05.
  • Held a place in the TAH story corpus from its earliest entries: 8. Fu-Kuen Lin 林福坤 (2017-01-04), plus profiles 109. Dr. Fu-Kuen Lin 林福坤博士 and 1449. Dr. Fu-Kuen Lin 林福坤博士.
  • Corpus check (2026-09-25): fresh grep for 林福坤/Fu-Kuen Lin returns only the work pages already linked above plus the works index — no new memoir or article mentions to absorb. Re-grepped same day (slice 09250500-25): hit set identical (8, 109, 1449, mystories263, works index) — verified-saturated; SKIP.
  • 2017 TAHS publication roster: listed as 林福坤 (Lin Fu-kun), biotech entrepreneur (Amgen, EPO/Epogen) — 2017 TAHS publication; the same roster also carries this page’s 博士 entry Dr. Fu-Kuen Lin (林福坤博士).
  • UIUC movement lineage: his 1971 Ph.D. (Plant Pathology, Urbana-Champaign) places him in the scientist generation of the campus record kept by the Taiwanese American Students Club at UIUC — TASC at UIUC (which cites him as same-campus movement lineage).
  • Note: the fuller biography in this corpus lives on the sibling page Lin Fu-kun (林福坤) — same person (b. 1941 Keelung; NTU B.S. 1964 / M.S. 1967; UIUC Ph.D. 1971; Amgen EPO), recorded from the 2017 TAHS publication with romanization variant Lin Fu-kun. No date/role conflicts between the two pages; cross-linked, not merged.

Education

  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1964 — B.S., Plant Pathology
  • National Taiwan Univ. — 1967 — M.S., Plant Pathology
  • Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign — 1971 — Ph.D., Plant Pathology

Employment

  • Amgen Inc. — Director, Consultant — (1981-)

Family

  • Wife: 高雲娟
  • Daughter: Jennifer
  • Son: Clarence, Eric

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