About Zhu Chen’s work
Based at Shanghai Second Medical University, Zhu Chen held a Croucher Visitorship at the University of Hong Kong from February to June 1994.
Biography
Chen was self-trained as a village doctor in the early 1970's. In 1978, he enrolled into the Shanghai Second Medical University and trained in internal medicine. In 1995, Chen was elected as an Academician of the Division of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the youngest Academician in the medical community at that time. In 2007, he was appointed Minister of Health of the PRC; and in 2013 elected Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the 12th National People's Congress, and was reelected in 2018. In 2015, he was elected President of the Red Cross Society of China.