Li Lanjuan | |||||||
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李兰娟 | |||||||
Director-general of the Health Department of Zhejiang Province | |||||||
In office March 1998 – March 2008 | |||||||
Personal details | |||||||
Born | Shaoxing, Zhejiang, Republic of China | 13 September 1947||||||
Political party | Chinese Communist Party | ||||||
Spouse | Zheng Shusen | ||||||
Children | 1 son | ||||||
Alma mater | Zhejiang Medical University | ||||||
Occupation | Epidemiologist, hepatologist | ||||||
Awards | State Science and Technology Progress Award (6 times) Ho Leung Ho Lee Prize (2014) | ||||||
Scientific career | |||||||
Fields | Epidemiology | ||||||
Institutions | First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University | ||||||
Chinese name | |||||||
Traditional Chinese | 李蘭娟 | ||||||
Simplified Chinese | 李兰娟 | ||||||
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Li Lanjuan (Chinese: 李兰娟; born 13 September 1947), also romanized as Lan-Juan Li, is a Chinese epidemiologist and hepatologist. She is a professor at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and serves as the director of the State Key Laboratory for Diagnosis and Treatment of Infectious Diseases. She developed Li-NBAL, an artificial liver support system that is used to sustain the lives of people suffering from acute liver failure, and won multiple national awards for her roles in combatting the SARS, H1N1, and H7N9 epidemics.