Zheng Shusen | |||||||
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郑树森 | |||||||
Born | Longyou County, Zhejiang, China | January 9, 1950||||||
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 | ||||||
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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.
He was accused of using organs from executed prisons for research, causing a retraction of his research article published on Liver International Journal.[2]
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.
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.
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]