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Prof. Zhu Chen

Minister, Ministry of Health, P. R. China

Dr. Chen Zhu obtained his master's degree from the Shanghai Second Medical Sciences University (the medical university later would be merged into Shanghai Jiao Tong University and now is SJTU's medical school) in September, 1981. Chen obtained his PhD from the Université Paris 7 - Denis Diderot in Paris, France. Chen also completed his medical residency and post-doctoral research at the same university and its teaching hospital.

Chen was the former President of the Shanghai Institute of Hematology. He was also the former Director-general of the the China Human Genome Center (South) in Shanghai. Chen served as Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). Chen currently is the only Minister of P.R.China without any political membership or party-ship.

Chen was elected an Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Chen is also a foreign member of the United States National Academy of Sciences, a foreign member of the United States Institute of Medicine, a foreign member of the French Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Third World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). Chen is also a Member of the European Academy of Arts, Sciences and Humanities.