Born into a Malayan Peranakan family in Penang, Dr Wu was an English-educated Queen's Scholar and Cambridge University's first Chinese graduate medical doctor. In Malaysia, Dr Wu is memorialised in many ways, including three roads that are named after him (two in Penang and one in Ipoh), a mural at SJKC Hu Yew Seah (George Town, Penang), the Wu Lien-Teh sports house at his alma mater Penang Free School, a gallery at the Malaysian Institute for Medical Research (Kuala Lumpur) and by the Dr Wu Lien-Teh Society. In May 2020, I organised the Inaugural Meeting of the Medical and Scientific Descendants of Dr Wu Lien-Teh via video conferencing. If you are a medical/scientific blood-relative of Dr Wu, please get in touch with Dr Ho via www.DrYvonneHo.com and let her know how you are related to Dr Wu Lien-Teh. I am proud of Dr Wu Lien-Teh whose life and work has inspired me throughout my career as a virus hunter.

Source: The Star August 29, 2020 21:56 UTC