Shen Shanjiong
Shen Shanjiong (; April 13, 1917 – March 26, 2021) was a Chinese microbiologist and geneticist. He was an academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Biography. Shen was born into a family of farming background in Wujiang County, Jiangsu, on April 13, 1917. He attended Tailaiqiao School () and Tongli School (). After graduating from Wujiang Middle School (), he was accepted to Suzhou Agricultural School. In 1937, he was admitted to the University of Nanking. In the summer of the same year, he studied at the Agricultural College of Guangxi University due to the Second Sino-Japanese War. In 1939, he  transferred to the National Southwestern Associated University, where he studied fungus under Dai Fanglan (). In 1944, he became an instructor at Huazhong University. The next year, he worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Botany, Academia Sinica, in Beibei, Sichuan (now Beibei District of Chongqing), under the introduction of Zhang Jingyue (). In 1946, he was appointed an assistant of the Department of Botany, Peking University. In 1947, he pursued advanced studies in the United States, first earning a doctor's degree in molecular genetics from California Institute of Technology in 1950 and then carried out postdoctoral research at  the University of Wisconsin. He returned to China after the outbreak of the Korean War. In November 1950, he became an associate professor at the School of Medicine, Zhejiang University. In 1952, he was transferred to the Chinese Academy of Sciences as an associate research fellow and was promoted to research fellow in 1956. Since 1980, he was a visiting professor at California Institute of Technology, New York University Grossman School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Boston Biomedical Research Institute. In 1984, he was hired as an honorary professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, helping to set up the  Department of Biological Science and Technology. On March 26, 2021, he died of illness in Shanghai, aged 103. Contributions. Shen developed aureomycin in 1957, making China the fourth country in the world to produce aureomycin.