Academician Ding-Shinn Chen receives the 2018 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize of Hepatitis B Foundation and will accept the award in person on April 6' 2018.

In the last 40 years, Dr. Chen and his colleagues have solved many problems of liver disease in Taiwan. As in the letter which has mentioned, "his research works as prevention and treatment in Hepatitis B and its association with liver cancer have made notable contributions in the field, which Dr. Blumberg(Nobel Prize winner 1976 and co-founder of the Hepatitis B Foundation) frequently referred to in his talks. Therefore the community has selected Dr. Chen to be the recipient of 2018 Baruch S. Blumberg Prize from Hepatitis B Foundation."

Congratulations to Dr. Chen!