Prof. Lan-Bo Chen (陳良博教授)
Identity Snapshot
- English: Prof. Lan-Bo Chen
- Chinese: 陳良博教授
- Era: 1943
- Geography: Yilan , Taiwan
- Core roles: entrepreneur, scientist, professor
- Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who
- The first Taiwanese American to receive the title of Professor Emeritus of Harvard Univ.
Education
- National Taiwan Univ. — 1968 — B.S., Chemistry
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 1972 — M.S. — 1975 — Ph.D., Cellular Biology
Employment
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratories — Senior Research Fellow — (1977-) — Harvard University — Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor — (1977-2004) — Harvard University — Professor Emeritus — (2004-) — CHO Pharma, Inc. — Chairman and General Manager
Family
No filled family fields on the TAH profile.
Role in the Community
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Acclaimed cancer researcher (抗癌研究專家) and academician of Academia Sinica (中研院院士), per a community memoir in [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/ourjourneys70|Our Journeys #70]].
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The memoir (a translator’s reminiscence of the 文星/新潮文庫 era) records that Chen — described as a fellow-township friend (同鄉好友) of the author — helped translate essays for the Russell books 「羅素回憶集」and「羅素傳」published around 1967.
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Community record also notes him as a key figure in the 蔡英文宇昌案 controversy (per the same memoir; press-account detail, pending independent verification).
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Biographical record held at 1994. Prof. Lan-Bo Chen 陳良博教授.
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2007 — TACEC community patronage. At TACEC 2007 the Wang Kang-Lu Memorial Concert (王博士紀念音樂會) was jointly provided by the Wang Kang-Lu Foundation and Dr. Chen and his wife — a community sponsorship recorded in the convention report (TACEC 2007).
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2013 — Preface for Lin Heng-cheh’s 「黎剎傳」. In the acknowledgments of 林衡哲’s biography of Philippine national hero José Rizal, Chen — described as “我新潮文庫時代的同鄉老朋友” (the author’s old township friend from the 新潮文庫 era) — “retook up the pen” (重拾舊筆) to write the preface 〈台灣的黎剎先生在哪裡？〉, contrasting Rizal’s achieved nationhood dream with Taiwan’s unfinished one (12).
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2015 — Nominator of 蔡立慧 for Academia Sinica. Per a 2017 profile of 蔡立慧 (Li-Huei Pee), Chen — then a Harvard Medical School professor — nominated her for Academia Sinica membership two years earlier and presented her research at the general assembly; she was elected with the highest vote (2017).
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Earlier passes (through slice 09211507-5, 2026-09-22) judged the corpus “bibliographic band B only, saturated” — that verdict is VOID: those greps missed the TACEC convention reports, the 435 biography acknowledgments, and the mystories profile, where the material above sits.