Zheng Shusen

Zheng Shusen (Chinese: 郑树森; born January 9, 1950) is a Chinese engineer and surgeon. He is a liver transplant expert who is a professor and doctoral supervisor at Zhejiang University.[1] He is an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and foreign academician of the Académie Nationale de Médecine. He is internationally known for his studies on organ transplantation and hepato-pancreato-biliary surgery.

Zheng Shusen
Born (1950-01-09) January 9, 1950
Longyou County, Zhejiang, China
Alma materZhejiang Medical University
Spouse(s)Li Lanjuan
Children1 son
Scientific career
FieldsOrgan transplantation
InstitutionsZhejiang University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese鄭樹森
Simplified Chinese郑树森
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Zheng.

Biography

Zheng was born in Longyou County, Zhejiang, on January 9, 1950. After the high school, he studied, then taught, at what is now Zhejiang University School of Medicine. He earned his master's degree from the university in 1986.

Contributions

In October 1991, as the first assistant, Zheng Shusen participated in the first human orthotopic liver transplantation in the Queen Mary Hospital of Hong Kong University, which became one of the top ten news in Hong Kong that year. In June 2001, Zheng Shusen performed the first living donor liver transplantation for children, creating the youngest living donor record in China at that time. He has completed 2800 cases of liver transplantation in China.

Honours and awards

Personal life

Zheng married Li Lanjuan, who is a hepatologist, epidemiologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.[4][5] The couple have a son named Zheng Jie (郑杰).[6]

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References
  1. Didi Kirsten Tatlow (7 February 2017). "Debate Flares Over China's Inclusion at Vatican Organ Trafficking Meeting". nytimes.com. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  2. Xie Panpan (谢盼盼) (10 January 2016). 国家科技进步奖获奖院士回顾科研历程：三十余年如一日. ifeng.com (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  3. 郑树森当选法国国家医学科学院外籍院士. Tencent (in Chinese). 20 December 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
  4. Zhang Le (张乐) (26 May 2012). 郑树森李兰娟院士夫妇发起成立树兰基金. sciencenet.cn (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  5. Zhang Le (张乐); Wei Hui (韦慧) (23 May 2015). 李兰娟院士伉俪：无数次的风雨同舟才能相濡以沫. Xinhua (in Chinese). Retrieved 22 January 2020.
  6. Zhang Zeqian (张泽茜) (2 February 2020). 儿子眼里的李兰娟院士：她一直都没有抛弃自己医生的身份. sina. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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