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His research was focused on protein structures and insulin. He separated re-synthesised insulin in pure crystal form and demonstrated that it had an identical three-dimensional structure with natural insulin. His other contributions include the production of crystal insulin using enzyme promotion,
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Zhang was a longtime professor at the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology and formerly served as vice-president of the institute. He also taught as a visiting professor at
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in England from 1964 to 1966. He was the only student at Cambridge from mainland China at the time. He returned to China just before the start of the
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the creation of a new technique to synthesize pig insulin, the synthesis of recombinant human insulin using yeast cells, and research of the
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in 1948, and earned a master's degree from the Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry in 1961, where he studied under Professor
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in England. He was elected as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001. In 2015,
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began in 1937, he moved with his family to Changsha, where he studied at
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and served as chief editor of the peer-reviewed journal
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The Pioneer of Insulin: The Biography of Zhang Youshang
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The Pioneer of Insulin: The Biography of Zhang Youshang
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Zhang died in Shanghai on 23 December 2022, at age 97.
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Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
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Chinese name
family name
Zhang

Changsha
Hunan
Shanghai
Zhejiang University
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry
University of Cambridge
Biochemistry
molecular biology
Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin
IPA

biochemist
Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology
Chinese Academy of Sciences
Acta Biochimica et Biophysica Sinica
insulin
Changsha
Zhang Xiaoqian
gastroenterology
Peking Union Medical College
Second Sino-Japanese War
Yali School

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