美国新冠疫情日誌5/6/2020 痛失英才 华裔教授遇害

   痛失英才 华裔教授遇害

仼教於美国匹兹堡大学的华裔教授刘斌(译音Liu Bing )上週末在其寓所被其友人Hao Gu 枪杀，警方对谋杀案之动机正在调查中，这位现年三十七岁的华裔教授目前正做有关新冠病毒之研究，并已取得非常卓越之成就，他也是匹兹堡大学巴哈试验室之主持人。

消息传来，科技界及友人感到无比之悲痛，我们更对这位英年早逝的年青科学家感到极度之惋惜。

近数十年来，来自海峡两岸的华人年轻学子不断来到美国，据统计，目前在美国留学的华人学生為数超过了四十万，其中泰半是来自顶尖大学之学生，他们不但品学兼优，而且也是在财政上支持各大学之主力，他们学成之后，多半留在美国贡献所长，也成了美国人，他们的优越贡献让大家有目共睹，这也更印证前总统里根所言：“我们是移民国家，移民是我们建立美国最主要之力量。”

刘教授被其友人加害，原因尚未明朗，同為华裔同胞，岂有何深仇大恨下此毒手，夺走一位杰出科学家之性命，令人不解。

值此新冠疫情仍然无法抑止之时，全世界生物科技界正在做分秒必争之努力，我们不幸少了一位硏究病毒的优秀科学家，真令人遗憾，当我们在為刘教授之去世哀伤之餘，也寄望大家能在此艰难时刻，守望相助，相互关怀，来共度难关。

Loss Of Talented Chinese-American Professor

Bing Liu, a 37-year old research professor at Pittsburg University was found dead in his home on May 2. He had been shot in the head and the neck. Police said one hour later after Liu’s body was discovered, a second person, Hao Gu, 46, was found dead inside a car less than one mile away. Police believe Gu killed Liu before returning to his car where he died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Pittsburg University issued a statement saying that Liu Bing was on the verge of making a very significant finding toward understanding the cellular mechanism that underlie the Sars Cov 2 infection and the cellular basis of following complications.

We are so sad to learn about this very sad news and our condolences go out to his family.

In the last half century, many Chinese students came to the United States to pursue a better life and higher education. After they got their Master’s or PhD degrees, most of them stayed here and became U.S. citizens and made great contributions to our nation. As the late President Ronald Reagan said, “We are a nation of immigrants.” 

While the coronavirus is still attacking our nation, we have lost one of the most outstanding medical scientist. We still don’t know what is the motive of this killing, but we all feel so sad about this tragedy. This murder case also tells us that hate can’t be the solution.