15 Facts About Wu Mengchao

Dr Wu Mengchao, was a Chinese surgeon and a medical scientist who specialized in hepatobiliary surgery.

Wu Mengchao was known as the "Father of Chinese Hepatobiliary Surgery".

Wu Mengchao was elected to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 1991 and was awarded the State Preeminent Science and Technology Award in 2005, China's highest scientific prize, by President Hu Jintao.

Wu Mengchao was the founding director of Eastern Hepatobiliary Surgery Hospital affiliated to the Second Military Medical University in Shanghai.

At 13:02 on 22 May 2021, Wu Mengchao died in Shanghai at the age of 99.

Wu Mengchao figured out to use ping pong balls as infusion material to make the first human liver vascular model in China after repeatedly testing more than 20 kinds of infusion materials to no avail.

At the meeting, Wu Mengchao was inducted as a member of the International Surgical Society, as a recognition of the international medical community for liver surgery in China.

In 1996, Wu Mengchao established the "Wu Mengchao Medical Foundation for Hepatobiliary Surgery", the first special fund in the field of liver surgery in China.

On 9 January 2006, Wu Mengchao received China Awards for Science and Technology, the highest national award for scientists.

Wu Mengchao is the first doctor who won this prize.

Wu Mengchao was 96 years old at that time but still performed three surgeries a week.

On 14 January 2019, Wu Mengchao retired at the age of 97.

Wu Mengchao had a grasp of the anatomy of a healthy liver.

Wu Mengchao suggested that the traditional theory that separates human livers into only left and right lobes needed to be updated, and established a new anatomical theory based on vascular distributions in livers and intrahepatic fissure.

Wu Mengchao then proposed intermittent interruption of the Porta Hepatis at room temperature.