Grand nephew of Dr Wu Lien-Teh, Dr James TS Lee (left) chatting with Prof Ye Tian (right) and Prof Qu Zhangyi of First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University in front of the bronze bust of Dr Wu. (Charles Mariasoosay - 09/03/2014)
THE Chinese called him the Plague Fighter for his effort to contain the spread of a pneumonic plague that killed 60,000 in China in 1910.
He was also the only ever Malaysian nominee for a Nobel Prize in medicine in 1935 and the first ever Chinese medical student at Cambridge University in 1896.
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