Hu Yamei
Hu Yamei (Chinese: 胡亚美; 27 April 1923 – 3 October 2019) was a Chinese physician and medical researcher. She was President of Beijing Children's Hospital, and co-founded Beijing Hu Yamei Children's Medical Research Institute (BHI). She was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering from 1994 through 2019.[1] She researched leukemia and she cured more than 700 children.[2]
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| Born | April 27, 1923 Beijing, China | ||||||||||||||
| Died | October 3, 2019 (aged 96) Beijing, China | ||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Yenching University Peking University | ||||||||||||||
| Scientific career | |||||||||||||||
| Fields | Pediatric hematology | ||||||||||||||
| Institutions | Beijing Children's Hospital | ||||||||||||||
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- This is a Chinese name; the family name is Hu.
Hu died of illness in Beijing on 3 October 2019, aged 96.[3]
References
- ↑ (in zh)sina. 3 October 2019. http://news.sina.com.cn/c/2019-10-03/doc-iicezueu9928743.shtml. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ↑ Huang Juan (10 August 2009). "Physician Dedicated to Curing Children with Leukemia". Womenofchina. http://m.womenofchina.cn/html/people/others/102605-1.htm. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
- ↑ (in zh)ifeng. 3 October 2019. http://news.ifeng.com/c/7qToZ8YojOi. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
Other websites
- Biography of Hu Yamei on Wiley Online Library