US prize-winning cancer scientist Wan Fengyi joins China’s Zhejiang University
A Johns Hopkins University scientist whose award-winning work suggests that a brief stomach bug could raise the risk of colon cancer has moved to China full time. Wan Fengyi, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, has joined Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, according to his new profile on the Chinese university’s website. Wan returned to China this month and now holds…
US scientist Wan Fengyi, a Johns Hopkins University professor known for his research on the potential link between gut infections and colon cancer, has moved permanently to China to join Zhejiang University in Hangzhou. His new position as chair professor at the university includes a lab at a national laboratory affiliated with a hospital that develops blood vessel-based devices.
Wan is one of several senior scientists from US institutions who have taken full-time positions at Zhejiang University this year, including Qian Jiang, a Johns Hopkins eye expert, and Lin Fanghua, a mathematician from New York University.
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