Wen Yumei

Wen Yumei (Chinese: 闻玉梅; born 16 January 1934) is a Chinese virologist and microbiologist and the current director of the Institute of Pathogenic Microorganisms, Fudan University.[1][2] She is also the director of Scientific Committee of Open Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology, Ministry of Education and Ministry of Health.

Wen Yumei
闻玉梅
Born (1934-01-16) January 16, 1934
Beijing, China
EducationShanghai Medical College
Scientific career
FieldsMolecular biology
InstitutionsFudan University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese聞玉梅
Simplified Chinese闻玉梅
In this Chinese name, the family name is Wen.

Biography

Wen was born in Beijing on January 16, 1934, with her ancestral home is in Xishui County, Hubei Province. Her father Wen Yichuan (Chinese: 闻亦传; 1896-1939) was an alumnus of the University of Chicago and medical scientist. Her mother Gui Zhiliang (Chinese: 桂质良) graduated from St. Mary's Hall, Wellesley Women's University and Johns Hopkins University. Her uncle Wen Yiduo was a well-known poet and scholar. She has an elder sister.

In 1941 she attended the Shanghai Zhongxi No. 2 School. She secondary studied at St. Mary's Hall. She studied and then taught at Shanghai Medical College. In 1980 she pursued advanced studies in the United States and United Kingdom, where she studied at the National Institutes of Health and the University of London respectively. After returning China she led the research on therapeutic hepatitis B vaccine. In 1999 she was elected an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). In February 2019 she was elected an academician of the American Academy of microbiology (AAM).[3]

References
  1. 闻玉梅：免疫，一个人的战争与和平. qianzhan.com (in Chinese). 2018-12-21.
  2. 已届耄耋的闻玉梅院士依然忙碌在教学岗位 培养的学生青出于蓝而胜于蓝. shanghai.gov.cn (in Chinese). 2018-09-04.
  3. 祝贺！复旦大学闻玉梅教授当选美国微生物科学院院士！ [Wen Yumei, professor of Fudan University, is elected academician of the American Society for Microbiology]. Sohu (in Chinese). 2019-02-05.
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