Li Lianda (; 24 July 1934 – 18 October 2018) was a Chinese

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and

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with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences. He was an academician of the

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and served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy of

Zhejiang University Zhejiang University (ZJU) is a public university, public research university in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education. The university is part of Project 211, Project 985, and D ...

Biography

Li was born on 24 July 1934 in

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, China. After graduating from

Beijing Medical College Peking University Health Science Center is the medical school of Peking University, which has 14 affiliated hospitals in Beijing, China. It was formerly the independent Beijing Medical University between 1952 and 2000. History It was first esta ...

in 1956, he worked at Xiyuan Hospital, which is affiliated with the China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (CACMS), and practiced as a

for 18 years. In 1974, Li began researching on the

pharmacology Pharmacology is the science of drugs and medications, including a substance's origin, composition, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, therapeutic use, and toxicology. More specifically, it is the study of the interactions that occur betwee ...

traditional Chinese medicine Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is an alternative medicine, alternative medical practice drawn from traditional medicine in China. A large share of its claims are pseudoscientific, with the majority of treatments having no robust evidence ...

. He later served as Director of Basic Medical Research at Xiyuan Hospital, and chief scientist at the CACMS. His research on the scientific basis of the traditional Chinese medical concept of blood stasis won the National Science and Technology Progress Award, First Class. He also pioneered a new procedure to treat

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using a combination of Chinese medicine and

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, which won the China Medical Society Science and Technology Award, First Class. Li was elected an academician of the

in 2003. From 2004 to 2009, he served as Dean of the School of Pharmacy of

Hangzhou Hangzhou, , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ; formerly romanized as Hangchow is a sub-provincial city in East China and the capital of Zhejiang province. With a population of 13 million, the municipality comprises ten districts, two counti ...

. On 18 October 2018, Li died in Beijing at the age of 84.

Controversies

In 2008, Li was implicated in an academic scandal at Zhejiang University. A

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at the School of Pharmacy, He Haibo (), was found to have published 14 articles in international journals that used falsified or plagiarized data, and Li was listed as a co-author. He Haibo admitted wrongdoing and said that he had submitted the articles using Li's name without his permission. An investigation by the university cleared Li of wrongdoing, and He Haibo, by then an associate professor, was fired. Li took personal responsibility for his lax supervision of He, although he said that his busy schedule which required him to spend most of his time in Beijing and his lack of English proficiency impeded his ability to scrutinize He's articles that were written in English. In 2009, Li was involved in a dispute with the Chinese pharmaceutical company

Tasly Tasly ( zh, s=天士力控股集团, p=Tiānshìlì Kònggǔ Jítuán) is a Chinese pharmaceutical company based in the city of Tianjin.

when he claimed that a key product made by Tasly was unsafe. Tasly sued Li in 2013, alleging that Li's claim was baseless and was motivated by his financial and employment relations with Guangzhou Pharmaceutical, a direct competitor of Tasly. In September 2014, the

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High People's Court ruled in favour of Tasly and ordered Li to issue an apology and pay Tasly 300,000 yuan in compensation.

References

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