Breaking the monopoly! He made China the fourth country in the world to produce chlortetracycline in large quantities

◎ Science and Technology Daily reporter Cao Xiuying

Strictly observe the Party's discipline, obey the Party's instructions, do not consider personal gains and losses, actively participate in the revolutionary movement, maintain close ties with the masses, and persist in fighting against all phenomena that are detrimental to the Party's cause. In scientific work, we must step up efforts, link with reality, actively cultivate new forces, absorb the wisdom of the masses, and unite scientific workers to fight for the Party's cause.

——Excerpt from Shen Shanjiong’s “Application for Party Membership” in April 1958

Shen Shanjiong's hand-filled page of "Party Membership Application"

March 26, 2021 22:10

103-year-old academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Renowned microbiologist Shen Shanjiong passed away

"The country has given me too much, but I have contributed too little to the country."

He often says this.

But in fact

He made great contributions to my country's scientific research

August 1950

33-year-old Shen Shanjiong

After receiving his Ph.D. from the Department of Biology at California Institute of Technology

Resolutely turned down the offer from the University of Wisconsin

With more than 100 Chinese students

Get on the cruise ship and prepare to return home

Unexpectedly, he was detained in Japan

After many twists and turns

Returned to the embrace of the motherland

then

my country is conducting large-scale antibiotic research

As soon as Shen Shanjiong returned to China

He devoted himself to the development of chlortetracycline

Inspired by a report at an academic conference

He found that the initial cultivation environment

Great impact on the production of chlortetracycline

1954

He first published his

Papers on chlortetracycline research in my country

Subsequently, a highly vigorous strain was cultivated

Solved the key problem of chlortetracycline mass production

1957

Domestic chlortetracycline passed clinical trials

And officially put into production at Shanghai Third Pharmaceutical Factory

The following year

The North China Pharmaceutical Factory, under the guidance of Shen Shanjiong, was put into full production

Become Asia's largest antibiotic production base

Make our country become after the United States, Britain, Italy

The fourth country in the world capable of mass production of chlortetracycline

Completely break the US monopoly on antibiotics

For decades

He led the team to conduct microbial biochemical research

In the discovery of glucose isomerase, bacterial conversion factors, and antibiotic synthesis and temporal control research, etc.

Make important contributions

besides

He also pioneered the new field of biological nitrogen fixation

Promoted the development of molecular genetics in China

Research on nitrogen fixation gene expression and genetic manipulation in my country

Catch up with the international frontier level

Shen Shanjiong

Joined the Communist Party of China in April 1958

Source: Science and Technology Daily. The pictures in this article are provided by the Party Committee of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Editor: Liu Yiyang

Reviewer: Wang Xiaolong

Final review: Liu Haiying