Fortunately, Li Chen-yuan, a TIU medical graduate who had joined Tu's research team at about the time of Taiwan's return to China, took over as a driving force of the next generation for continuing that research.
好在杜聰明後繼有人，台北帝大第一屆的醫學生李鎮源在光復前後加入他的研究團隊，成為新一代生力軍。