About Yan Jin’s work
From December 1998 to May 1999, Yan Jin held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong. At the time, Jin was based at Fourth Military Medical University.
Biography
Jin Yan graduated from the Fourth Military Medical University in 1985 and received his Ph.D. in 1991. In 1995, at the age of 32, Jin Yan was promoted to Professor. Jin has been engaged in stem cell and tissue engineering research. He is the Chief Scientist of the National "973 Program" and the Chief Scientist of the National Key R&D Program. Jin developed China's first tissue engineering product - tissue engineering skin, the world's first biological cornea product (this achievement was selected as one of the top ten advances in China's pharmaceutical biotechnology in 2015), and the first clinical whole pulp regeneration based on stem cells (this achievement was selected as one of the top ten advances in China's pharmaceutical biotechnology in 2018).