Dr. Dominic Lam’s achievements have been recognized at the highest levels in the United States and Asia. Dr. Lam has received the Presidential Medal of Merit from President Bush who also appointed him to a Presidential Committee in 1989. Dr. Lam obtained his bachelor, masters and doctorate degrees by the age of 22, studied under two Nobel Laureates at Harvard Medical School before joining the Harvard Faculty at Harvard and subsequently at Texas Medical Center in Houston.

In 1985, he started the first biotech company in Texas, took it public in 1988 and was widely recognized as the Father of Texas Biotechnology. In 1989, he was invited to establish the Hong Kong Institute of Biotechnology to help Hong Kong’s high tech development. In 1993, Dr. Lam founded LifeTech Group to develop, manufacture and market the best Eastern and Western healthcare products. Dr. Lam is also a well-known philanthropist who first brought “Project Orbis”, the flying eye hospital, to China in 1982. To pursue his charitable mission, Dr. Lam moved back to Hong Kong in 1999 and founded the World Eye Organization to prevent and treat eye diseases for the poor, initially in China and subsequently around the world.

Dr. Lam has authored over 100 research articles, some of them in prestigious journals such as Nature, 6 books published by MIT and holds over 17 U.S. and international patents. In 2001, one of Dr. Lam’s patents entitled “Edible Vaccines” was named by MIT as one of “five patents that will transform business and technology” and by Time Magazine as one of ten most important developments in the 21st century. Dr. Lam has received numerous honors and awards, including honorary professor at the Chinese Academy of Science (1985), the US High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year (1989) and Asian Society Man of the Year (1991). A more detailed CV of Dr. Lam on its website