Book Coupon Scholarship, National Taiwan University
1975-76
Predoctoral Fellowship, US Army Research Unit-2
1978-79
Regents Fellowship,
University of California at San Francisco (UCSF)
1979
Honorable Mention, Research Contest by Graduate Student
Association, UCSF
1980-81
Chancellor's Graduate
Research Fellowship, UCSF
1990
Best Paper Award, XXVI
ICO (International Congress of Ophthalmology)
1996
The L. T. Bruce Hart Summer Scholar Award to
Karly Kaplan for the project that was supervised during the
1996 Summer High School Research Program sponsored by the American
Heart Association
1997
Pharmacia & Upjohn Residents' Research Prize
in Ophthalmology & Visual Sciences for the best oral paper
presentation by Sao Bing Lee, M.D. on "Differences in cytokine
expression between pterygial and normal human conjunctival fibroblasts"
1998
Charlotte Breyer Rodgers
Chair in Ophthalmology
1999
Ulrich Ollendorff Lecture, Columbia University
1999
President, International
Ocular Surface Society
2002
International Gold
Medal Award, International Symposium of Ophthalmology
2002
Sek-Jin Chew Lecture, International Symposium
of Ophthalmology
2002
Chancellor Award, Louisiana State University
School of Medicine
2003
Marvin Henry MD Memorial Lecture, University of Illinois
at Chicago Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
(UIC Eye Center)
2004
Senior Achievement Award, American Academy of
Ophthalmology
2004
“Best of Show” Award Video at Annual
Meeting of American Academy of Ophthalmology 2004 and Joint
Meeting with European Society of Ophthalmology “Fornix
Rconstruction by Mitomycin C and Amniotic Membrane Transplantation
in Chronic Cicatricial Ocular Surface Diseases”
2004
Kersley Lecture, MCLA, London, UK
2005
Oliver H. Dabezies Jr. M.D. Lecture by Contact
Lens Association of Ophthalmology