Lo was born on 15 February 1927 in
Puli, Nantou,
Japanese Taiwan. After graduating from
National Taiwan University (NTU), he studied at
Tohoku University in Japan, earning his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1959. Lo's teaching career teaching career at NTU spanned from 1964 to 1995. A pioneer in the research on proteins in Taiwan, Lo was elected an academician of Academia Sinica in 1986. From 1978 to 1990 he served as Dean of the College of Sciences and then Dean of Academic Affairs at NTU. From 1993 to 1996, he served as Vice President of Academia Sinica. In January 2016, his memoir was published by the Institute of Modern History of Academia Sinica. Lo died on 13 May 2019 in Taipei, at the age of 92. == References ==