Wu Zhengzhi, Professor/Researcher, Chief Physician, Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Advisor, Chief Scientist and Discipline Leader at Shenzhen Institute of Geriatrics, Foreign Academician of the National Academy of Engineering of Ukraine.
In 1992, he obtained his Ph.D. in medicine and was exceptionally promoted to a senior professional title in 1999. In the same year, he was elected as an expert with outstanding contributions to natural sciences by the State Council and was named "Person of the Year in Science China" in 2016. In 2021, he was elected as a Foreign Academician of the National Academy of Engineering of Ukraine.
He has been recognized as a distinguished medical figure by UCSD, one of the important scientific figures of the 20th century in Guangdong, a postdoctoral researcher at UCLA, a senior visiting scholar at UCSD, a national expert with outstanding contributions, one of the top ten scientists in Guangdong Province, an excellent young and middle-aged expert in Guangdong Province (selected by the provincial and municipal government), a distinguished expert in Shenzhen, a leading high-level scientific talent in Shenzhen, and an invited expert to establish an official academician workstation.
Currently, he serves as the Director of the National Proteomics Level 3 Laboratory and the Director of the National Key Research Laboratory of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He is also a Ph.D. and Postdoctoral Advisor at six prestigious universities, including Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Sun Yat-sen University, and Jinan University. Additionally, he has served as the Director of Shenzhen Institute of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, Deputy Director of Shenzhen Second People's Hospital/Shenzhen Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine, and Director of Shenzhen People's Hospital/The First Affiliated Hospital of Shenzhen University/Shenzhen Institute of Geriatrics.
Academician Wu Zhengzhi mainly engages in the precise diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of geriatric diseases using integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine. He specializes in treating cognitive impairment, cerebrovascular diseases, Parkinson's disease, refractory headaches, and sleep disorders in the elderly. He has published over 330 academic papers with a total impact factor of 713.273, applied for and obtained over 300 domestic and international technical invention patents, and trained more than 60 high-level professionals, including postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. students. He has also edited and published 48 textbooks and professional academic works on geriatrics, such as "Geriatric Neurology" and "Chinese Medicine Dietetics," and has won 28 scientific achievement awards, including the first prize of natural science from the State Education Commission and the first prize of science and technology of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine in China.