Ya-Chun Wang's first brush with modern pharmaceuticals occurred in a chicken coop in the southern Taiwanese county of Tainan. More than 30 years ago, Wang snoozed on the floor of that coop as a three-year-old while his fowl-farming parents vaccinated their flock through the night. Rather than taking over his family's successful farm, however, the adult Wang let his scientific curiosity lead him to Taiwan's burgeoning biotech sector.
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