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Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, former Dean of the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine, researcher of the Center for Viral Disease Control and Prevention of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and professor at Beijing University of Technology, Zeng Yi .
Zeng Yi, born in March 1929, is from Jiexi, Guangdong. Graduated from Shanghai Medical College (now Fudan University Shanghai Medical College) in 1952. Elected as an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1993.
He began to study the relationship between EB virus and nasopharyngeal cancer in 1973, and established a series of serological diagnostic methods for nasopharyngeal cancer, which has been widely used in China, which has increased the early diagnosis rate of nasopharyngeal cancer from 20-30% to 80 -90%. For the first time in the world, it was proved that under the synergistic effect of the carcinogen TPA and butyric acid, human fetal nasopharyngeal mucosa tissues infected by EB virus can induce human nasopharyngeal cancer in nude mice, which is the direct result of EB virus-induced human nasopharyngeal cancer. evidence. The research on HIV and AIDS has been carried out since 1984, which proves that HIV has been introduced into my country in 1984. The first Chinese HIV-1 strain was isolated in 1987. Established a rapid diagnostic method for HIV. He has dealt with various dangerous viruses throughout his life, and the more "fighting" the more courageous: "A scientific researcher must be loyal to his duties. The more serious and dangerous I study the virus, the more I must study it." (Guangming Daily All media reporter Li Yuan)