Zheng Shusen

In this Chinese name, the family name is Zheng.

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
郑树森
Born	(1950-01-09) January 9, 1950 (age 75) Longyou County, Zhejiang, China
Alma mater	Zhejiang Medical University
Spouse	Li Lanjuan
Children	1
Scientific career
Fields	Organ transplantation
Institutions	Zhejiang University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	鄭樹森
Simplified Chinese	郑树森
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhèng Shùsēn

He was accused of using organs from executed prisons for research, causing a retraction of his research article published in Liver International.^[2]

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

• November 2001 Member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE)
• 2012 Honorary academician of Surgery of Hong Kong
• 2013 Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation
• 2015 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)^[3]
• December 19, 2017 Foreign member of the Académie Nationale de Médecine^[4]
• 2021 Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering^[5]

Personal life

Zheng married Li Lanjuan, who is a hepatologist, epidemiologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.^[6][7] The couple have a son named Zheng Jie (郑杰).^[8]

controversy

See also: Organ_transplantation_in_China

According to a February 6, 2017 report in the journal Science, the authoritative international academic journal Liver International issued an earlier statement on January 30, 2017, stating that because the authors Zheng Shusen and Yan Sheng were unable to provide proof that the sources of the organs for the 563 liver transplants referred to in the paper complied with morality, the journal decided to retract the paper, which was published online in October 2016, and would "never" publish their research in the journal. Liver International proof, the journal decided to retract Zheng's paper, which was published online in October 2016, and will "never" publish their research in the journal.^[9] Although the article and full text are still available on the Liver International website, it has been labeled as retracted with reasons for retraction based on research ethics.^[2]

References

1. Didi Kirsten Tatlow (7 February 2017). "Debate Flares Over China's Inclusion at Vatican Organ Trafficking Meeting". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 February 2020.
2. Yu Z, Yu S, Zhang L, Feng X, Zhang M, Xu X, Wu J, Yu J, Zhang M, Shen Y, Wang W, Xie H, Zhou L, Tu Z, Yan S, Zheng S (May 2017). "Safety limitations of fatty liver transplantation can be extended to 40%: Experience of a single centre in China". Liver International. 37 (5): 767. doi:10.1111/liv.13244. ISSN 1478-3223. PMID 27589369. (Retracted, see doi:10.1111/liv.13400, PMID 28453919)
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. "AIMBE Elects 2021 Fellows". aimbe.org. 15 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. "Study retraction reignites concern over China's possible use of prisoner organs | Science | AAAS". 2017-02-09. Archived from the original on 2017-02-09. Retrieved 2024-07-27.

External links

• Zheng Shusen on Zhejiang University