With the promotion by enthusiastic Taiwanese scholars, SFRR-Taiwan was founded in 2001. Despite the fact that the number of the society members is below one hundred, SFRR-Taiwan has been developed quite well with the efforts of former presidents Prof. Chau-Fong Chen, Prof. Tsan-Zon Liu, and Prof. Danny Tsun-Yee Chiu. It has been a great honor for me to be the current President of SFRR-Taiwan since early 2014. I want to express my appreciation to Associate Professor Shu-Huei Kao of the School of Medical Laboratory Science and Biotechnology, Taipei Medical University, for serving as the Secretary-General and Dr. Yu-Ting Wu for her kind service as the Secretary of SFRR-Taiwan. In the past year, both of them have been working very hard to promote SFRR-Taiwan, contact the former society members, recruit new members and stay in close contact with Prof. Shinya Toyokuni, the President of SFRR-Asia, and Prof. Yuji Naito, the Secretary-General of SFRR-Asia, to support various activities and attend the conferences held by SFRR-Asia. With the cooperation and assistances of all the members, everything has gone extremely well so far in SFRR-Taiwan. In the late November of 2014, SFRR-Taiwan held an annual society meeting and a free radical research conference at National Yang-Ming University. It was a great success as a result of the assistance of Prof. Tsan-Zon Liu and Prof. Chiang-Ting Chien, who organized the scientific program and helped me invite speakers.

On behalf of SFRR-Taiwan, Prof. Danny Tsun-Yee Chiu and I have taken over the responsibility from Hong Kong Society for Free Radical Research to host the “Cross-Straits Conference on Free Radical Research 兩岸三地自由基學術研討會”, which has been scheduled to take place in Taipei in the Autumn of 2016. We sincerely invite scholars and researchers interested in free radical research from China and Hong Kong to join this scientific event.

The SFRR-Taiwan is an academic society that belongs to those who are engaged or interested in research of free radical biology and medicine. The support and participation of clinicians and friends in biotech industries will be greatly appreciated. We encourage graduate students and young scientists who are interested in free radical research and biomedical sciences to jour our society. Together, we can create a bright future for basic research of free radicals and clinical applications of novel technologies and products developed in this and related fields.

Best regards,
Yau-Huei Wei, Ph.D.
President of SFRR-Taiwan
President
Mackay Medical College
New Taipei, Taiwan 252