About Zhibin Yao’s work
Zhibin Yao held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from February to April 1999. At the time, Yao was based at Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences.
Biography
Yao Zhibin graduated from the Medical Department of Anhui Medical College in 1979 and received his Master's and Doctoral degrees from Sun Yat-sen Medical University from 1982 to 87. From 1988 to 1998, he successively served as Deputy Director and Director of the Department of Anatomy and Director of the Graduate Division of Sun Yat-sen Medical University. From 1994 to 95, he was a visiting scholar at the Center for Neuroscience at the University of Tennessee. Yao was the Deputy Mayor of Zhongshan City, the Director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Health, and a member of the Standing Committee of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of Jiusan Society. In the 80s, he proposed to increase the plasticity of the senile brain as the main research direction for the prevention of brain aging, and in the 90s, the treatment strategy of senile dementia with Aβ as the target was proposed, and the research results effectively promoted the development of research on the prevention and treatment of brain aging and senile dementia.