24 Facts About Feng Depei

Feng Depei or Te-Pei Feng was a Chinese neuroscientist and physiologist.

Feng Depei is considered one of founders of modern Chinese neuroscience and physiology.

In 1922, Feng Depei entered Fudan University in Shanghai, initially studied literature.

At Fudan, Feng Depei was attracted by newly emerged psychology, so he transferred to the psychological department in 1923.

In 1926, Feng Depei graduated from the biological department of Fudan, and became a lecturer at the same department.

In 1927, because of the student movement at Fudan, the department of biology was dissociated, so Feng Depei had to leave Fudan.

Feng Depei went to Beiping, worked and worked under Robert Lim at Peking Union Medical College.

Feng Depei did research on thyroid secretion, with Zhang Xijun.

In 1929, Feng Depei won the Boxer Rebellion Indemnity Scholarship Program at Tsinghua University.

Feng Depei did research on nerve metabolism, and graduated in 1930 from UChicago with MSc.

In 1930, Feng Depei went to England, where he studied and did research in Cambridge and London.

Feng Depei obtained his PhD from the University College London, University of London in 1933, and his academic advisor was Archibald Hill.

Feng Depei subsequently worked at University of Cambridge and University of Oxford.

In 1933, recommended by Hill, Feng Depei went to the United States again, and spent 1 year at the University of Pennsylvania, supported by the Eldridge Reeves Johnson Foundation for Medical Physics of UPenn.

In 1934, Feng Depei returned to Beiping, and worked again at Peking Union Medical College as a professor.

In 1941, due to World War 2, the PUMC was closed, and Feng Depei went to Chongqing, the wartime capital of China.

In 1943, Feng Depei became the acting director of the Medical Research Institute of Academia Sinica.

In 1945, invited by the British Council, Feng Depei visited the United Kingdom.

In 1947, Feng Depei was a visiting scholar at the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City.

Feng Depei was professor of physiology at the Shanghai Medical College, and the Director and later Honorary Director of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Physiology.

Feng Depei was President and later Honorary President of the Chinese Physiological Society.

Feng Depei was Vice-President, and the Division Chair of Biology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Feng Depei was a representative of the first, second, and third National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China.

Feng Depei had been a member of the National Standing Committee of the People's Political Consultative Conference of China from 1978 to his death.