中国工程院院士、澳门科技大学校长、中药质量研究国家重点实验室主任刘良讲座教授荣膺美国国家发明家研究院（The National Academy of Inventors, NAI）院士殊荣（NAI Fellow）。
中国工程院院士、澳门科技大学校长、中药质量研究国家重点实验室主任刘良讲座教授荣膺美国国家发明家研究院（The National Academy of Inventors, NAI）院士殊荣（NAI Fellow）。美国国家发明家研究院院士是美国国家发明家研究院（NAI）授予在全球范围内大学或非盈利组织机构从事学术研究工作的发明家之最高荣誉，藉以表彰他们的发明创造对提升人类生活品质、促进经济发展及社会福祉所做出的杰出贡献。自NAI于2010年成立以来，共为1228名著名发明家颁授了美国国家发明家研究院院士荣誉，他们来自全球近250所著名大学和非盈利研究机构，总共持有近41,500项美国发明专利。
美国国家发明家研究院院士每年评选一次，2019年度共有168位著名发明家获得嘉许，包括4名诺贝尔奖得者，6人美国国家科技创新奖章或美国国家科学奖章得主，他们来自全球135间研究型大学和非牟利研究机构，共拥有3500项美国专利，研究涵盖了神经行为科学、园艺学、光子学、传统医学等一系列的学科。发明家院士们将于2020年4月11日在美国亚利桑那州费尼克斯赫德博物馆举行的第九届美国国家发明家研究院年度会议中就任。
美国国家发明家研究院主席Paul R. Sanberg教授指出：“今年入选的发明家院士的研究水准给我留下了深刻的印象，他们在各自的领域都备受尊敬。他们研究发明的范围和广度令人震撼，其研究成果正影响着全世界走向一个科学、技术及创造的全新时代。”
刘良教授是2019年港澳地区唯一获颁美国国家发明家研究院院士的学者。刘教授是知名的中医药专家，在中医诊疗风湿病和抗关节炎新药研究等领域成果丰硕，已在SCI学术期刊发表学术论文近230篇，包括Science和Nature增刊、Nature Medicine、Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases、Microbiome 等国际著名期刊，并以第一发明人获国际专利27项。刘教授在中医诊疗风湿病研究领域取得了多项突破性成果，填补了多项国际空白，并于2019年11月当选中国工程院院士。刘教授表示：本人获得此国际殊荣再次说明传统中医药具有极强的科技创新和发明创造潜力，只要充分集成并应用好多学科结合的先进技术与方法开展中医药自主创新和原始创新研究，完全能够做出影响世界并获得世界高度认同的一流成果，中医药走向世界、服务全人类前景光明。
附：获2019年美国发明家研究院院士荣誉名单
- Ernesto V. Abel-Santos, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- David A. Ahlquist, Mayo Clinic
- Susan D. Allen, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Andrea Alù , City University of New York Advanced Science Research Center, Photonics Initiative
- Guillermo A. Ameer, Northwestern University
- Subramaniam Ananthan, Southern Research Institute
- Gattadahalli M. Anantharamaiah, The University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology
- Rodolphe Barrango, North Carolina State University
- Rena Bizio, The University of Texas at San Antonio
- Michael Blaber, Florida State University
- Anne J. Blaschke-Bonkowsky, The University of Utah
- Stephen A. Boppart, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Robert Bowser, Barrow Neurological Institute
- Michael S. Brown, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Ardeshir (Adi) Ratan Bulsara, Naval Information Warfare Center
- Jason Burdick, University of Pennsylvania
- Lewis C. Cantley, Cornell University
- Michael L. Chabinyc, University of California, Santa Barbara
- Bryce Chackerian, The University of New Mexico
- Paul Citron, University of California, San Diego
- John P. Cooke, Houston Methodist Research Institute
- Jerome Cox, Washington University in St. Louis
- Seamus Curran, University of Houston
- Pamela B. Davis, Case Western Reserve University
- Cristina E. Davis, University of California, Davis
- Peter B. Dervan, California Institute of Technology
- Tejal A. Desai, University of California, San Francisco
- Christos Dimitrakopoulos, University of Massachusetts Amherst
- Jon P. Dobson, University of Florida
- Francis Joseph Doyle, III, Harvard University
- Dongsheng Duan, University of Missouri-Columbia
- Dean B. Edwards, University of Idaho
- Ayman Sabry El-Baz, University of Louisville
- John F. Engelhardt, University of Iowa
- Laura Ensign, Johns Hopkins University
- William J. Federspiel, University of Pittsburgh
- Terri Fiez, University of Colorado Boulder
- Francis Stuart Foster, University of Toronto
- Kaizhong Gao, Argonne National Laboratory
- Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, Mount Sinai Health System
- Glenn R. Gaudette, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Robert J. Genco, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
- Georgios B. Giannakis, University of Minnesota
- John Murray Gibson, Florida A&M University
- Joseph L. Goldstein, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
- Kenneth E. Goodson, Stanford University
- Renukaradhya J. Gourapura, The Ohio State University
- David Grewell, North Dakota State University
- David Grier, New York University
- Robert E. Guldberg, University of Oregon
- Bernard Franklin Gupton, Virginia Commonwealth University
- Horst Hahn, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology/University of California, Irvine
- Yousef Haik, Hamad Bin Khalifa University
- Robert P. Hammer, Louisiana State University
- Luis Rafael Herrera-Estrella, Texas Tech University/Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados
- Bertrand Hochwald, University of Notre Dame
- Robert S. Hodges, University of Colorado Anschutz
- Jeffrey O. Hollinger, Carnegie Mellon University
- Victor J. Hruby, The University of Arizona
- Hong Hua, The University of Arizona
- Jessica E. Huber, Purdue University
- John David Irwin, Auburn University
- Bor Zeng B. Jang, National Cheng Kung University
- Jules Janick, Purdue University
- Wilfred A. Jefferies, The University of British Columbia
- Jerome B. Johnson, University of Alaska Fairbanks
- Wayne Jones, University of New Hampshire
- Eric R. Kandel, Columbia University
- Kristi Kiick, University of Delaware
- Israel Kleinberg, Stony Brook University
- Leonard Kleinrock, University of California, Los Angeles
- Melissa Knothe Tate, University of New South Wales
- Julia A. Kornfield, California Institute of Technology
- David M. Kranz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Jack H. Ladenson, Washington University in St. Louis
- Gianluca Lazzi, University of Southern California
- Walter S. Leal, University of California, Davis
- Fred J. Leonberger, University of South Florida
- Danuta Leszczynsk, Jackson State University
- Yiannis A. Levendis, Northeastern University
- Jonathan S. Lewin, Emory University
- Jun Li, Kansas State University
- David A. Lightfoot, Southern Illinois University
- Jingyu Lin, Texas Tech University
- Yuehe Lin, Washington State University
- Fu-Tong Liu, Academia Sinica
- Liang Liu, Macau University of Science and Technology
- Kunlei Liu, University of Kentucky
- Ray Liu, University of Maryland
- Karen Lozano, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
- G.Q. Max Lu, University of Surrey
- Anita Mahadevan-Jansen, Vanderbilt University
- Radenka Maric, University of Connecticut
- Olimpia Meucci, Drexel University
- Sanjit K. Mitra, University of California, Santa Barbara
- John P Mugler, III, University of Virginia
- Priyabrata Mukherjee, University of Oklahoma
- Satish Nagarajaiah, Rice University
- Madhavan Nair, Florida International University
- Balaji Narasimhan, Iowa State University
- Kathryn Nightingale, Duke University
- Valentine Asongu Nzengung, University of Georgia
- Fiorenzo Omenetto, Tufts University
- Boon S. Ooi, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
- Ebru Oral, Harvard Medical School
- Mihrimah Ozkan, University of California, Riverside
- Peter Palese, Mount Sinai Health System
- Keith D Paulsen, Dartmouth College
- David S. Peabody, The University of New Mexico
- Carlos Pignataro, North Carolina State University
- Albert P. Pisano, University of California, San Diego
- Leslie S. Prichep, New York University
- Yihong Qi, Missouri University of Science and Technology
- Roderic Quirk, The University of Akron
- John Michael Ramsey, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Aragula Gururaj Rao, Iowa State University
- Mehdi Razavi, Texas Heart Institute
- Floyd E. Romesberg, The Scripps Research Institute
- Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
- Rob A. Rutenbar, University of Pittsburgh
- Daniela Salvemini, Saint Louis University
- Kamal Sarabandi, University of Michigan
- Roger R. Schmidt, Syracuse University
- Holger Schmidt, University of California, Santa Cruz
- Christopher A. Schuh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Steve Schwendeman, University of Michigan
- Thomas A. Sellers, H. Lee Mo‑tt Cancer Center & Research Institute
- Timothy John Senden, Australian National University
- Surendra P. Shah, The University of Texas at Arlington/ Northwestern University
- Mubarak Shah, University of Central Florida
- Neil G. Siegel, University of Southern California
- John C. H. Spence, Arizona State University
- Peter J. Stang, The University of Utah
- James Fraser Stoddart, Northwestern University
- Howard A. Stone, Princeton University
- James C. Sturm, Princeton University
- Kenneth Ray Swartzel, North Carolina State University
- Francis C. Szoka, University of California, San Francisco
- Lakshman Tamil, The University of Texas at Dallas
- Gabor Temes, Oregon State University
- H. Thomas Temple, Nova Southeastern University
- Gregory J. Thompson, West Virginia University
- Natalia A. Trayanova, Johns Hopkins University
- Hai T. Trieu, The University of Memphis
- Li-Huei Tsai, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Aykut Üren, Georgetown University
- Carl-Wilhelm Vogel, University of Hawai’i Cancer Center
- Lawrence Wald, Massachusetts General Hospital Research Institute
- Ge Wang, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Hongjun Wang, Stevens Institute of Technology
- Chao-Yang Wang, The Pennsylvania State University
- Eric Dean Wetzel, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
- Margaret Wheatley, Drexel University
- Ryan Wicker, The University of Texas at El Paso
- Samuel A. Wickline, University of South Florida
- Robert Williams, III, The University of Texas at Austin
- Blake S. Wilson, Duke University
- Stanislaus S. Wong, Stony Brook University
- Chee Wei Wong, University of California, Los Angeles
- Karen L. Wooley, Texas A&M University
- Min Wu, University of Maryland
- Jenny Jie Yang, Georgia State University
- Cathy Yao, Baylor College of Medicine
- Samuel Yen-Liang Yin, National Taiwan University
- Gleb Yushin, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Xin Zhang, Boston University
- Chuan-Jian Zhong, Binghamton University, The State University of New York