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Biography Revised: 6/11/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Biography
Yao Kaitai, male, Han nationality, is a native of Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, and was born in Sichuan Province. He graduated from Shanghai No. 1 Medical College in 1954.
Yao Kaitai was the first to verify that nitrosamine chemical carcinogen had certain benignity with respect to nasopharynx epidermis. During the 1980s, he discovered that two sub-nitryl piperazine had benignity to big rat nasopharynx epidermis, which caused DNA damage to the big rat's nasopharynx epidermis.
Yao established a stable human embryo nasopharynx epidermis cell cultivation method and successfully induced normal human embryo nasopharynx epidermis to transform malignantly. He was also the first to establish human nasopharynx cancer epidermis cells infected widely with EB virus (Epstein Barr Virus) and researched the gene group of cell plant EB virus. He also discovered that it was different with standard EBV plants of B
Career Data
| 1991— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Dean, Tumor Research Institute | ||
| Professor, Hunan Medical College Hunan Province | ||
| 1954 | Graduate, Shanghai Medical College, Medical Department Shanghai Municipality |
