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Wu Mengchao, male, Han nationality, is a native of Minqing, Fujian Province. He graduated from the Medical School of Shanghai Tongji University in 1949. Wu is a senior academician and a physician.

Regarded as a founder of liver and gallbladder surgery in China, Wu devised a new opinion of five-blade four-segment of Chinese liver and gallbladder anatomy. He then created a kidney excision method of intermittent liver gate blocking at normal temperatures and established a complete diagnosis and treatment system for liver sponge-like vein tumors and small liver cancer.

In the 1980s, he created a liver excision without blood and then led developments in aspects of gene immune treatment, liver cancer bacteria, and liver transplant. He has served as the dean at both the Orient Liver and Gallbladder Surgery Hospital and the Orient Liver and Gallbladder Surgery Research Institute at the No. 2 Surgeon University.

Wu also has medical experience with the Chinese military. He was deputy director of the Medical Scientific Committee with the PLA and was awarded the title of model medical specialist by the Central Military Committee in 1996.

He became an academician with the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991.

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