President Edward M. Hundert presents CWRU alumnus Cheng-Wen (Ken) Wu, president and distinguished investigator of the National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan, with the President's Award for Distinguished Alumni. Wu (GRS '69) was the second speaker featured in the Presidential Visiting Scholar Lecture Series. He was appointed in 1995 as the founding president of the National Heath Research Institutes, where he is responsible for setting the national health agenda in Taiwan. Through his initiatives, the number of people in Taiwan contracting diseases such as liver cancer has been drastically reduced.

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