Lo Tung-bin (; 15 February 1927 – 13 May 2019), also known as T. B. Lo, was a Taiwanese biochemist. A pioneer in the research on

proteins Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions within organisms, including catalysing metabolic reactions, DNA replication, respo ...

in Taiwan, he was elected an academician of

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, la, 1=Academia Sinica, 3=Chinese Academy; ), headquartered in Nangang, Taipei, is the national academy of Taiwan. Founded in Nanking, the academy supports research activities in a wide variety of disciplines, ranging from ...

in 1986. He served as Dean of the College of Sciences of National Taiwan University and Vice President of Academia Sinica (1993–1996).

Biography

Lo was born on 15 February 1927 in

Puli, Nantou Puli Township () is an urban township in Nantou County, Taiwan. The township is located within the Puli Basin. It is the geographic center of Taiwan. Name In the 19th century the city was known as Posia () or Po-li-sia (). The Atayal name o ...

Japanese Taiwan The island of Taiwan, together with the Penghu Islands, became a dependency of Japan in 1895, when the Qing dynasty ceded Fujian-Taiwan Province in the Treaty of Shimonoseki after the Japanese victory in the First Sino-Japanese War. The sho ...

. After graduating from National Taiwan University (NTU), he studied at

Tohoku University , or is a Japanese national university located in Sendai, Miyagi in the Tōhoku Region, Japan. It is informally referred to as . Established in 1907, it was the third Imperial University in Japan and among the first three Designated Nationa ...

in Japan, earning his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1959. Lo worked as an associate research fellow at the

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, before returning to Taiwan to join the faculty of NTU. In 1972, on the invitation of

Chien Shih-Liang Chien Shih-Liang aka S. L. Chien (; 1908–1983), was a Chinese chemist who served as the President of the Academia Sinica. A graduate of Tsinghua University and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, he also served as President of Nati ...

, then president of

, he co-founded the Institute of Biological Chemistry, a joint venture of NTU and Academia Sinica, and served as its first director. Lo's teaching career teaching career at NTU spanned from 1964 to 1995. A pioneer in the research on proteins in Taiwan, Lo was elected an academician of Academia Sinica in 1986. From 1978 to 1990 he served as Dean of the College of Sciences and then Dean of Academic Affairs at NTU. From 1993 to 1996, he served as Vice President of Academia Sinica. In January 2016, his memoir was published by the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica. Lo died on 13 May 2019 in Taipei, at the age of 92.

References

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