Zheng Shusen

Zheng Shusen
郑树森
Born (1950-01-09) January 9, 1950 (age 74)
Alma materZhejiang Medical University
SpouseLi Lanjuan
Children1
Scientific career
FieldsOrgan transplantation
InstitutionsZhejiang University
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese
Simplified Chinese
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhèng Shùsēn

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 in Liver International.[2]

  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)