Ru-Band Lu
Professor Ru-Band Lu graduated from National Defense Medical Center (NDMC) in 1972, following that he completed his resident training, as well as being a lecturer of NDMC in 1980. He gained a clinical fellowship of psyphamachology in Baylor Medical College, Huston, Texas, USA between 1981 and 1982, and he became a clinical psychopharmacologist in the USA. He became a professor of Psychiatry at NDMC in 1989. From 1992 to 1993, he was a visiting research scientist in Human Genetics at Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA. From 2003 to 2009, he was the director of the Institute of Behavioral Medicine and chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Now he is a distinguished professor in university. Dr. Lu was the President of the Taiwanese Psychiatry Association from 2003 to 2005. He received an Academic Achievement Award, Taiwanese Society of Psychiatry in 2007 and K.T. Lee Science and Humane Award – Gold Medal in 2011. He works in re-classification of major mental illness, finds the new mechanism of drugs and develops new models to treat several major mental disorders. He has published more than one 150 research articles in the last ten years.