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Biography

Wu Min, male, Han nationality, is native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He graduated from Tongji University Medical College in 1950 and received a medical degree from the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Soviet Union in 1961. Wu spent from 1958 to 1961 in the former Soviet Union and started modern human cell genetics research there. Upon returning to China in 1961, he continued his research. In the 1970s, he began studying esophagus cancer hereditary pathogenesis in northern China and later analyzed modular level research. Wu also engaged in studies that separated affected genes of esophagus cancer in China.

Wu served as a professor at Beijing Union Medical College at the China Academy of Medical Science. He also directed a modular oncology national key laboratory.

In 1980, he was elected as an academician at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.