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Biography

Yao Xinsheng, male, Han nationality, is a native of Shanghai. He was born in 1934 and graduated from Northeast Medicinal College (presently Shenyang Medicinal University) in 1955. He studied in Japan from 1981 to 1983 and earned a doctorate degree.

Yao remained at his alma mater upon graduation and served as an assistant lecturer. In 1960, under the tutelage Zhu Yanru (a well-known chemist), Yao helped establish the Natural Medicine Chemistry Research Office at the university. He later held lecturer and office chief positions before leaving for studies in Japan.

Elected as an academician to the Chinese Academy of Engineering in 1995, Yao was appointed president of the university in 1996 – a post he held for four years. In 2000, he resigned the presidency to pursue his medicine research interests. In doing so, Yao created the Shenzhen Chinese Medicine and Natural Medicine Research Center.

He is the host of the medicinal appraisal group of the degree appraisal group at the State Council and also serves as the deputy director of the China Medicine Society.