Lin Wenjie, Professor and Chief Scientist at Harvard University
·Founder of the World Ophthalmology Organization. The technological achievements include over 100 papers, including 7 published in the British journal Nature, 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 2 in Scientific American, and 5 books on ophthalmology and neuroscience, as well as 17 international patents.
·In 1974, he became an associate professor at Harvard Medical School.
·In 2002, Professor Lin Wenjie's oral vaccine patent was selected by Time magazine as one of the top ten most important advances of the 21st century.
·In 2002, he was invited to serve as a member of the Academic Committee of the National Center for Life Sciences in China and an honorary professor at the University of Hong Kong.