Yu Dequan (; 22 October 1932 – 31 December 2022) was a Chinese pharmaceutical chemist, and an academician of the

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Biography

Yu was born into a family of farming background in

Penglai County Penglai, Peng Lai, or Peng-lai may refer to: *Penglai, Shandong, a district in Yantai, Shandong, China * Penglai, Hainan, a town in Wenchang, Hainan, China * Penglai, Sichuan, a town in Daying County, Sichuan, China * Penglai, Fujian, a town in An ...

(now Penglai District),

Shandong Shandong is a coastal Provinces of China, province in East China. Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilization along the lower reaches of the Yellow River. It has served as a pivotal cultural ...

, on 22 October 1932. In 1947, he became a worker at the Xinhua Pharmaceutical Factory under the Department of Health of Jiaodong Military Region. In 1952, he was accepted to Beijing Medical College (now

Peking University Health Science Center 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 ...

), where he majored in

pharmaceutical chemistry Medicinal or pharmaceutical chemistry is a scientific discipline at the intersection of chemistry and pharmacy involved with drug design, designing and developing pharmaceutical medication, drugs. Medicinal chemistry involves the identification, ...

. After graduating in 1956, he was despatched to the Institute of Materia Medica,

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. Between 1980 and 1981, he studied at the Institute of Natural Material Chemistry,

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. On 31 December 2022, he died in

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, at the age of 90.

Honours and awards

* 1999 Member of the

(CAE) * 2019 Member of the

(CAMS)

References

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