Tributes paid as hepatitis expert Chen dies at 76By Jake Chung / Staff writer, with CNAAcademia Sinica’s Chen Ding-shinn (陳定信), the nation’s leading authority on hepatitis, died from pancreatic cancer at National Taiwan University Hospital on Wednesday. Born on July 6, 1943, in then-Taipei County’s Yingge Township (鶯歌), Chen was a student of National Taiwan University College of Medicine professor Sung Juei-low (宋瑞樓), dubbed the Taiwanese father of liver disease research. Academia Sinica’s Chen Ding-shinn holds a bouquet of flowers at a book launch in an undated photograph. To overcome public resistance to the program, Chen and Sung appeared on TV and radio to promote it. Chen’s research on hepatitis B and C, and his influence on related policymaking, made Taiwan a world leader in liver disease research, Academia Sinica President James Liao (廖俊智) said.

Source: Taipei Times June 25, 2020 15:56 UTC