CHEN Yihan is an excellent cardiologist and a medical scientist. Currently, he serves as VicePresident of Oriental Hospital Affiliated to Tongji University. Through more than two decades of clinical and biomedical research work, he has made remarkable achievements with regard to treatment and pathogenesis of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure and was elected Academician of CAS in 2015 because of his outstanding contributions.

CHEN received his bachelor’s degree in clinical medicine from the Medical School of Nantong University in 1987. He then joined the affiliated hospital of Nantong University, as a resident physician in the department of cardiology, and received his MS degree five years later in this university. In 1996, CHEN received his Ph.D. degree in cardiology from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine and successively worked as a cardiologist in the department of cardiology in the Tongji Hospital affiliated to Tongji University until 2010.

During his clinical practices in cardiology, CHEN has been focusing on the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and heart failure and leading a group carrying out a series of projects in the field of cardiology, with special emphasis on the explorations of novel molecular mechanisms and pharmacological targets beyond the traditional concepts.

Major contributions:

● the genetic and electrophysiological mechanisms of various arrhythmias;

● the hypothesis that the myocardial cell logistics system can widely regulate cardiac electro-mechanical functions;

● the molecular valve effect of the mitochondrial outer membrane translocation enzyme complex subunit of cardiomyocytes in the occurrence of chronic heart failure;

● a new mechanism for adrenergic receptor regulation of cardiac oxygen metabolism.

Awards:

● second prize of National Natural Science Award,

● first prize of Natural Science Award of Ministry of Education,

● first prize of Shanghai Natural Science Award;

● the Chinese Physician Prize.

His bio is available on the official website of CAS:

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