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{{short description|Chinese engineer and surgeon}}
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'''Zheng Shusen''' ({{zh|s=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]].<ref>{{cite news |author1=Didi Kirsten Tatlow |title=Debate Flares Over China's Inclusion at Vatican Organ Trafficking Meeting |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/world/asia/china-vatican-organ-transplants.html |access-date=8 February 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=7 February 2017}}</ref> 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 [[Organ transplantation in China#Organs sourced from prisoners sentenced to death|using organs from executed prisons]] for research, causing a retraction of his research article published in ''[[Liver International]]''.<ref name=Liver>{{Cite journal |vauthors=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 |date=May 2017 |journal=Liver International |language=en |volume=37 |issue=5 |pages=767 |doi=10.1111/liv.13244 |issn=1478-3223|doi-access=free |title=Safety limitations of fatty liver transplantation can be extended to 40%: Experience of a single centre in China|pmid=27589369 }}{{Retracted|doi=10.1111/liv.13400|pmid=28453919|intentional=yes}}</ref>
==Biography==
Zheng was born in [[Longyou County]], [[Zhejiang]], on January 9, 1950. After the high school, he studied, then taught, at what is now [[Zhejiang University School of Medicine]]. He earned his master's degree from the university in 1986.
==Contributions==
In October 1991, as the first assistant, Zheng Shusen participated in the first human orthotopic liver transplantation in the [[University of Hong Kong|Queen Mary Hospital of Hong Kong University]], which became one of the top ten news in Hong Kong that year. In June 2001, Zheng Shusen performed the first [[Liver transplantation#Living donor transplantation|living donor liver transplantation]] for children, creating the youngest living donor record in China at that time. He has completed 2800 cases of liver transplantation in China.
==Honours and awards==
* November 2001 Member of the [[Chinese Academy of Engineering]] (CAE)
* 2012 Honorary academician of Surgery of Hong Kong
* 2013 Science and Technology Progress Award of the [[Ho Leung Ho Lee Foundation]]
* 2015 State Science and Technology Progress Award (Second Class)<ref>{{cite news|author1=Xie Panpan ({{lang|zh|谢盼盼}})|url=http://news.ifeng.com/a/20160110/47014937_0.shtml |script-title=zh:国家科技进步奖获奖院士回顾科研历程：三十余年如一日 |work=ifeng.com |date=10 January 2016 |access-date=8 February 2020 |language=zh}}</ref>
* December 19, 2017 Foreign member of the [[Académie Nationale de Médecine]]<ref>{{cite news|url=https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20171220A0VCIC |script-title=zh:郑树森当选法国国家医学科学院外籍院士 |work=Tencent |date=20 December 2017 |access-date=8 February 2020 |language=zh}}</ref>
* 2021 Fellow of the [[American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering]]<ref>{{cite news |title=AIMBE Elects 2021 Fellows |url=https://aimbe.org/2021-aimbe-fellows/ |access-date=20 February 2021 |work=aimbe.org |date=15 February 2021}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Zheng married [[Li Lanjuan]], who is a hepatologist, epidemiologist, and an academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.<ref>{{cite news|author1=Zhang Le ({{lang|zh|张乐}})|url=http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2012/5/264688.shtm |script-title=zh:郑树森李兰娟院士夫妇发起成立树兰基金 |work=sciencenet.cn |date=26 May 2012 |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=zh}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|author1=Zhang Le ({{lang|zh|张乐}})|author2=Wei Hui ({{lang|zh|韦慧}})|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/politics/2015-05/23/c_1115383737.htm |script-title=zh:李兰娟院士伉俪：无数次的风雨同舟才能相濡以沫 |work=Xinhua |date=23 May 2015 |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=zh}}</ref> The couple have a son named Zheng Jie ({{lang|zh|郑杰}}).<ref>{{cite news|author=Zhang Zeqian ({{lang|zh|张泽茜}})|url=http://news.sina.com.cn/o/2020-02-02/doc-iimxxste8299337.shtml |script-title=zh:儿子眼里的李兰娟院士：她一直都没有抛弃自己医生的身份 |work=sina |date=2 February 2020 |access-date=3 February 2020}}</ref>
== controversy ==
{{see also|Organ_transplantation_in_China}}
According to a February 6, 2017 report in the journal ''[[Science (journal)|Science]]'', the authoritative international academic journal Liver International issued an earlier statement on January 30, 2017, stating that because the authors Zheng Shusen and Yan Sheng were unable to provide proof that the sources of the organs for the 563 liver transplants referred to in the paper complied with [[morality]], the journal decided to retract the paper, which was published online in October 2016, and would "never" publish their research in the journal. ''[[Liver International]]'' proof, the journal decided to retract Zheng's paper, which was published online in October 2016, and will "never" publish their research in the journal.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-02-09 |title=Study retraction reignites concern over China's possible use of prisoner organs {{!}} Science {{!}} AAAS |url=http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/study-retraction-reignites-concern-over-china-s-possible-use-prisoner-organs |access-date=2024-07-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209230015/http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/02/study-retraction-reignites-concern-over-china-s-possible-use-prisoner-organs |archive-date=2017-02-09 }}</ref> Although the article and full text are still available on the [[Liver International]] website, it has been labeled as retracted with reasons for retraction based on research ethics.<ref name=Liver/>
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://person.zju.edu.cn/en/zhengshusen Zheng Shusen] on Zhejiang University
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