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Biography Revised: 5/21/2003
Career Data Updated: 3/26/2006
Biography
Liang Zhiquan, male, Han nationality, is a native of Zhongshan, Guangdong Province. He graduated from Yanjing University in 1937 and received a doctorate from Pennsylvania State University in 1950.
Liang succeeded in creating 'Shiyan No.2' and 'Shiyan No.3' substitute plasmas, whose antigenicity are unique. He also found six kinds of new variants of abnormal hemoglobin, three kinds of new variants of haemocyanin in people of Chinese heritage. His research uncovered three kinds of new variants of a 1-antitrypsin and proved that the variant of a 1-antitrypsin commonly seen people in China is Etokyo.
Among his other accomplishments, Liang found that busulfan can re-unlock the g-globin gene which could be used to treat b-thalassemia. He contributed significantly to the research method of Class One structures of transfer RNA and analgesic principles of acupuncture anesthesia and made new discoveries in b-thalassemia gene treatment.
Career Data
| 1980— | Academician, Chinese Academy of Sciences | |
| Professor, Peking Union Medical College, Biochemistry Department Beijing Municipality | ||
| Researcher, Chinese Medical Academy of Science, Basic Medicine Research Institute | ||
| 1950 | Graduate, Pennsylvania State University USA, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh (Received Doctorate) | |
| 1941 | Graduate, Yanjing University, Chemical Department Beijing Municipality (Received Master's Degree) | |
| 1937 | Graduate, Yanjing University, Chemical Department Beijing Municipality |
