{
  "id": 15554403,
  "title": "US prize-winning cancer scientist Wan Fengyi joins China’s Zhejiang University",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/us-prize-winning-cancer-scientist-wan-fengyi-joins-chinas-zhejiang",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-10-19T04:00:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Reuters Business via SCMP",
    "slug": "reuters-business-via-scmp",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3370955/us-prize-winning-cancer-scientist-wan-fengyi-joins-chinas-zhejiang-university"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "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.",
  "summary": "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…",
  "key_points": [
    "US cancer researcher Wan Fengyi joins Zhejiang University in China.",
    "Appointed chair professor with lab at national hospital-affiliated lab.",
    "Among multiple senior US scientists transferring to Zhejiang University this year."
  ],
  "editors_take": "The permanent relocation of high-profile researchers from elite American institutions to Zhejiang University signals a growing trend of senior scientific talent moving to China for leadership roles.",
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "South China Morning Post",
        "title": "US prize-winning cancer scientist Wan Fengyi joins China’s Zhejiang University",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/19/us-prize-winning-cancer-scientist-wan-fengyi-joins-chinas-zhejiang-15559100",
        "published": "2026-10-19T04:00:06.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}