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 Professor
Wen Yumei, native from Xishui County of Hubei Province, China,
graduated from Shanghai First Medical School in 1956. Upon graduation,
she was matriculated as a graduate student in Department of
Microbiology and Immunology in Shanghai Second Medical College. In
1963-64, she was a teacher in Department of Immunology, Chinese
Academy of Medical Sciences. During 1980-1982, first, she was a
teacher at the WHO (World Health Organization) Viral Hepatitis
Collaborating Center, in London School of Hygiene and Tropical
Medicine, UK; and later, a visiting scholar at the Hepatitis Viruses
the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, USA. She has been
appointed Lecturer, associate Professor, Professor in the research
section of Microbiology, Former Shanghai Medical University, and is
presently Chairman and Professor of Department of Medical Molecular
Virology in Former Shanghai Medical University, which is an Open
Laboratory affiliated to the State Ministry of Health. She is
President of the Chinese Associate for Microbiology. Professor Wen
work both in teaching and research of Medical Microbiology. Her major
field of research is molecular biology and immunology of hepatitis B
virus. She has reported a number of hepatitis B virus variants
discovered in China, and studied their biological characteristics
associated with the persistent infection of hepatitis B virus in our
country systemically. In 1988, she put forward immune tolerance
against hepatitis B virus surface antigen and investigated treatment
strategy to abrogate immune tolerance. She has designed the
therapeutic vaccine of hepatitis B surface antigen-antibody compound.
This novel therapeutic vaccine is currently under evaluation for
clinical trials, which has been in the phase of pilotscale experiment
by the producer. She has been recognized as one of the pioneers
working in the field of therapeutic vaccines. Professor Wen has
received nine awards and two invention patents, including the National
Natural Science Award, the National Prize for Scientific and
Technological Progress and the Prize for Scientific and Technological
Progress by the State Ministry, Province and City. Her publications
cover 6 Chinese/English books and 160 manuscripts. One of the English
books, Viral Hepatitis in China: Problems and Control strategies,
1992, which was published and distributed abroad, was well received.
She has instructed twelve Ph.D. students and a number of students who
are now actively working in the field of microbiology and immunology.
Professor Wen was elected to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in
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