In August 2007 Lee became chairman of Adimmune, during which time he sought out media reporters to talk about the urgency of homegrown flu vaccines and invited Ho Mei-shang, former epidemiologist for the US Centers for Disease Control and researcher at Academia Sinica's Institute of Biomedical Sciences, to serve as head of R & D at Adimmune.
詹啟賢在署長任內，積極推動醫護人員施打流感疫苗；李明亮 2007 年 8 月甫一接任國光董事長，不但急著找媒體記者談國人自製流感疫苗的急迫性，更大力延攬曾在美國疾管局任職的流行病學家、中研院生醫所研究員何美鄉，借調至國光出任研發長。