In May, Academician Chu-Yung Lin, Advisory Board Member of the Institute of Plant and Microbial Biology and the Agricultural Biotechnology Research Center at Academia Sinica, became the first researcher in Taiwan to receive the Life Corresponding Membership Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists.
The American Society of Plant Biologists is the largest and most prestigious plant biology society in the world. Since 1932, the society has annually recognized outstanding plant biologists who live outside the United States with the Corresponding Membership Award. The award, whose recipients may not make up more than two percent of the total dues-paying membership of the society, gives recipients life membership to the society. The honor is conferred by nomination by several society members, selection by the society’s Corresponding Membership Award Committee and then election by all society members.
Academician Lin, who is also Professor Emeritus of National Taiwan University, is well-known for his life-long contributions to plant biology. For half a century, Lin has made seminal breakthroughs in research into plant hormones and stress-related proteins and has devoted much effort to educating numerous junior plant scientists in Taiwan. Some of these scientists have become world leaders in plant biology both in Taiwan and throughout the world.
